Word: iranian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...newsmen had finished their polite, respectful questions, and with punctilious protocol one of the visiting Shah's aides closed the press conference at the Iranian ambassador's house in London: "Thank you very much, Your Majesty...
Emboldened by the new pact with the U.S., Iran's government radio and press sassed Moscow back with a bravado unknown in earlier days. To charges that Iranian oil is being exploited by outsiders, Radio Teheran tartly urged Moscow: "Liberate the enslaved Rumanian workers from the claws of Soviet soldiers and hand back the oil to the Rumanian nation. Moscow thinks Iran is a second Rumania, where people have but one freedom-that of dying...
Dolled up to the royal nines, glowing, velvet-eyed Princess Soraya, 26, ex-wife of Iran's Shah, paid a formal call on the proud old Roman family of the man whom the gossipists keep saying she will marry: handsome, unwealthy Prince Raimondo Orsini, 27. But Vatican and Iranian court circles frown on the romance, and Raimondo's low income seems no match for Soraya's high tastes. The betting of Romans in the know: no wedding...
...neighboring Iran, the Shah grew so nervous about the new power in Baghdad that he demanded changes in the proposed new U.S.-Iranian agreement, to guard against invasion from Iraq as well as from Russia. It was hardly the kind of guarantee the U.S. could give. But in an attempt to bring the U.S. around, the Shah received a special Soviet diplomatic mission to his country to draft a new Soviet-Iranian nonaggression treaty (a tactic he had previously deplored when Egypt's President Nasser tried...
...press freedom are threatened by the President's attitude toward the Bell case." In almost 15 years as one of TIME'S top correspondents, Jim Bell has suffered just about every vicissitude of the reporter's trade, including near mobbing at the hands of an Iranian mob that mistook him for Winston Churchill. But the charge that he seeks to disturb Philippine-U.S. relations is perhaps the oddest ever directed at him. Few Americans have more affection and respect for the Filipino people. Kansas-born Jim Bell spent the formative years of his youth in northern...