Word: gavam
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Dates: during 1946-1946
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...Meanwhile from Iran, came an explanation of why the Iranian Government was playing up to Russia. Teheran needed Russia's support in domesticating Azerbaijan's Russian-inspired rebels. Trouble was brewing elsewhere in Iran. As the Red Army withdrew, rightist politicians and landowners, who consider Premier Ahmed Gavam's Government proSoviet, were going on the warpath. In Mazanderan, along the Caspian coast, armed bands were attacking left-wing peasants and workers. In Khorosan, fundamentalist Mohammedans were organizing to combat Communist influence by abolishing the reforms made a generation ago by Reza Shah Pahlevi. Among their chief aims...
...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...
...Know what you are talking about. Mathieu insists that an interpreter must know all about U.N. affairs and current history-and a great many other things as well. When the Iranian Ambassador told the Council how Premier Gavam had been dined & wined in Moscow last month, the French interpretation mentioned only dining. Wine, Mathieu explained later, was a matter of course to a Frenchman...