Word: iranians
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Signs & Hopes. The world press wrote column upon column, but virtually nothing was known about what was going on at the Moscow conference. The atom, the Balkans, control of Japan were on the agenda. Hottest issue was Iran. The day the conference met, a revolutionary "National Government of Iranian Azerbaijan" was established at Tabriz with Russian support. Iran appealed to the Three, raising the cry of Russian interference with a fellow United Nation...
...Iranian Army, a story gives its quality. Not many years ago a battalion refused to obey orders. The commander disbanded it, sent the men to their homes. They came to the Shah to request an escort with the plea, "there are bandits on the roads and we are only a hundred...
...Politics of Oil. But the niceties of palace protocol were surface symptoms. Beneath them stirred the tides of history. As a well-read Iranian, the Shah doubtless recalled the words of the Arabian Poet Abul Ala al Ma'arri: "History is a poem in which the words change, but the rhythm recurs." For Iran the rhythm of history was almost metronomic...
...greatest known oil reservoir on earth. Only in the south had part of its riches yet been tapped, by the British, but the results were impressive enough. From the oil area around Masjidi-Suleiman and the great refinery of Abadan at the head of the Persian Gulf, the Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. drew 350,000 barrels a day, with indicated reserves of six to seven billion barrels. Few oilmen doubted that the untapped fields north of Iran, especially round Lake Urmia and Samnan, held oil as well...
Possibly Russia contemplated annexing Iranian Azerbaijan to the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic across the border...