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...Teheran, Premier Ahmed Gavam announced a "complete agreement" with Moscow covering departure of the Red Army, a Russo-Iranian oil company with the Soviets holding 51% control, and direct Teheran-Azerbaijan negotiations as "an internal Iranian affair." The tie-in was as plain, if not as pretty, as a Persian poet's metaphors...
...Iranian issue had been settled once & tor all. In sober fact, Russia had probably never intended an indefinite military occupation of northern Iran. What she had always wanted was 1) a Government in Teheran amenable to Russian demands, and 2) access to Iranian oil. In the Russo-Iranian treaty Gavam had indicated a high decree of amenability...
...Gavam had made a deal, it was at least a better one than he could have got without U.N. support. And if Gromyko had issued another ultimatum, it was one which admitted that U.N. had had a right to consider the case...
...clear?"). But with Russian troops still in Iran and no documents available on the alleged agreement, the other Security Council delegates at UNO-in-The Bronx were more confused than they liked to admit. Was the Red Army moving out or just moving around? Had wily old Premier Ahmed Gavam made a private deal with Stalin...
...Friday some of the tenseness was gone. At an open meeting, Lange twitted Ala about Gavam's going to Moscow "merely to attend a vodka party," was not offended when Ala got the best of the exchange by cracking back that Gavam got "plenty of vodka and caviar" but had not sold out his country...