Word: gholam
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...supply line because they were outside the Tehran municipal jurisdiction. "We've paid one-third of that, but we haven't been able to get three drops of water," she complains. Meanwhile, an apartment building up the street, owned in part by the Shah's brother Gholam Reza, was instantly hooked up. "Why is he inside and why are we outside?" asks Mrs. Mokhtari...
...same time, the government of Premier Gholam Reza Azhari, who is also the army chief of staff, was using tough methods to break a nationwide oil strike. In Ahwaz, workers were given their choice of going back to their jobs or being fired; by week's end most of the country's 37,000 oil and refinery employees were back at work, and production rose to roughly half the normal output of 6 million...
...Shah last week sounded out Gholam Hussein Sadighi, 73, a onetime Interior Minister, on the possibility of forming a "government of new faces." Sadighi, a professor of sociology at the University of Tehran, had been jailed five times for his opposition to the Shah. His response to the Shah's invitation was to offer several preconditions: there must be an end to martial law and the troops must go back to their barracks; the prosecution of officials on corruption charges must be speeded up; and a regency council must run Iran while the Shah takes a "rest...
...gained, at best, some breathing time in which to come to terms with his massive opposition. Oil workers were still on strike, costing Iran as much as $60 million a day in lost revenues and cutting production to as little as one-fifth of the normal flow. Premier Gholam Reza Azhari went on television to appeal to the oil workers to go back to work, declaring that their strike was "bending the backs of 34 million Iranians." Azhari said he was "ashamed to admit" that petroleum-rich Iran was being forced to import kerosene, which most Iranians use for heating...
...flash point had been passed Sunday, when millions of Iranians staged peaceful demonstrations against the Shah throughout the country. Some government leaders, including the military governor of Tehran, General Gholam Ali Ovisi, had wanted to stop the demonstrators "mercilessly." But Premier Azhari, who is also the armed forces chief of staff, argued that bloodshed should be avoided at all costs, and the Shah agreed. Accordingly, the government promised to withdraw its forces to north Tehran, leaving the heart of the city free for the demonstrators. In return, the organizers of the demonstration promised to discipline their ranks and pledged that...