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...Hussein Ala, for pounding the anti-Russian alarm too loudly in the Security Council. Security Council disapproval forced the Red Army to leave all Persia?but skeptics pointed out that Red influence, exerted through the Communist-led Tudeh Party, was still strong in Teheran; they doubted if Premier Ahmad Gavam's Government was free enough to re-establish its sovereignty over Azerbaijan...
Several weeks ago, when Gavam announced that Persian Government troops would be sent into the province, Ivan Sadchikov, Moscow's bald, pink Ambassador to Persia, protested vigorously. Gavam did not back down. On his instructions, Ambassador Ala reported Sadchi-kov's remarks to the Security Council (in his letter they were called "friendly admonitions") and asked the Council to keep an eye on northern Persia. At a Persian Embassy dinner in Washington, word was informally passed that the U.S. would vigorously support "Persia and any other nation that defends its established rights...
Capitulation. The Persian Chief of Staff laid out complete operation plans for invading Azerbaijan. Last week, as zero hour neared, the radio at Tabriz (Azerbaijan's capital) shrilled defiance: "We've issued orders to our army to stop Gavam's troops at all costs. . . . Long live the Azerbaijan nation...
Last week Allah's Brother spoke. The Qashqai and neighboring Bakhtiari tribesmen fought Government forces along 140 miles of the Persian Gulf coast, attacked the port of Bushire, entered the outskirts of Shiraz. Harried Premier Ahmad Gavam sent a five-man mission to the threatened capital to talk peace terms with Nasser Khan's leaders...
...Rising Wind. The best Iran's Gavam could do was to bend with the rising Soviet wind. The increased Tudeh representation in his Cabinet (which includes Dr. Morteza Yaz di, a wealthy Soviet sympathizer) got the posts of Commerce & Industry, Education and Health, but not the key posts of War, Foreign Affairs (Gavam) and Justice. To counter Tudeh agitation the British moved some troops up to Basra, close to the Abadan flashpoint...