Word: gavam
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Dates: during 1946-1946
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Premier Ahmad Gavam Saltaneh was back from Moscow, where his gentle dickering had yielded no assurances of Russian departure. The March 2 deadline in the Anglo-Russian-Iranian treaty continued to be honored in the breach. Premier Gavam could not defend his country or the world's peace. He waited uneasily for this week's showdown meeting of UNO's Security Council in New York...
...March 1. But Russia had let down deeper roots-in the Communist-controlled "autonomous" province of Azerbaijan. If the Red Army withdrew from the north, Azerbaijan would forthwith lose its autonomous props. Nor had the Kremlin had enough time to negotiate a new treaty with Iranian Premier Ahmad Gavam Saltaneh, who had been in Moscow since...
Part In, Part Out. A day before the deadline, Moscow Radio baldly broadcast that Premier Gavam had been "notified" of the Soviet decision to begin withdrawing its troops on March 2 from districts "where the situation is relatively more quiet" in eastern Iran. In other areas the Red Army would stay "until the situation has been elucidated...
...Moscow, the "elucidation" proceeded. Susceptible Premier Gavam might be willing, but his parliamentary majority (52-to-51) was too weak for far-reaching concessions. Any plan to abrogate Iranian sovereignty over Azerbaijan would almost certainly be repudiated by a hostile House. In vain Prince Firouz, Director of Propaganda, soothingly explained the Soviet presence in troubled areas as a "friendly gesture." Angry deputies called it "an act of aggression," "a threat of another world...