Word: iranian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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International Association for Iranian Art and Archaeology...
...political problems but domestic ones. Though his father sired four daughters and seven sons, the Shah still has no male heir to his throne. In 1948, after she had borne him one daughter, he divorced Egypt's Fawzia and three years later married the handsome half-German, half-Iranian Soraya. Despite Soraya's famed fiery temper, it was with regret that the Shah divorced her in 1958, apparently convinced that she was barren -a charge that makes Soraya angry...
...with cronies at Saadabad Palace, where he glumly lost a reported 10 million rials ($130,000). Late last year, after his companions had searched far and wide for someone who met the royal standards, the Shah struck up a third match with 21-year-old Farah Diba, a pert Iranian art student in Paris who, after royal treatment by Dior, Revillon and Carita, easily equaled his first two wives in comely poise. Soon after their marriage, Farah Diba announced that a child was on the way. On the assumption that the baby will be the long-awaited heir, the Shah...
...Shah's 20 million subjects. After centuries of conquest, Iran has a kind of occupation complex, vividly exemplified by a tenet of its Shi'ite sect of Islam, which holds that a man may legitimately disavow his religion in time of danger. ''Deep in the Iranian mind," says one Middle East expert, "lies the conviction that nothing ever happens in Iran except by the desire of a foreign power." Many of the middle-class Teheran intellectuals and business men who most heatedly denounced the recent election rigging had not even bothered to vote. Scoffed one educated...
Despite the Shah's best intentions, a shocking percentage of Iran's economic-development money turns into "fruit'' distributed at every level of officialdom. One foreign entrepreneur, after striking a bargain for some surplus airplane parts originally given to the Iranian Air Force by the U.S., resignedly paid off the colonels concerned only to have his loaded trucks held up at the gate by a young captain of the guard who inquired with pointed effect, "Don't you think captains are as good as colonels?" "They aren't even subtle about it," says...