Word: firuzkuh
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Flashback. Scion of an Army-officer family, the Shah was born in 1876 in the Firuzkuh district east of Teheran. Iran was Persia then; and in the '80s Russia, which had steadily picked off Persia's northern provinces, conspicuously strengthened her position at Teheran by organizing under Tsarist officers the Persian Cossack Brigade, most effective military force in the country. This rough & tough outfit Reza, a youngster of 24, joined as a trooper...
Riding back next day over the Elburz Mountains, the "King of Kings" forged ahead of his suite, who found a snowstorm in Firuzkuh Pass too much for them. Pushing on to Teheran with a small picked escort Reza Shah Pahlevi stamped into his Palace, ordered every Persian newspaper to print what had been suppressed. To Britons it seemed impossible that the horsy Persian would act thus unless he had potent backing. Whose? The London Press bristled with rumors that representatives of J. P. Morgan & Co., General Motors, Goodyear and Firestone were in Teheran dickering to form...
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