Word: iranians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pink." What blinded was a dark gold silk ball gown, encrusted to the knees with sparkling jewels and gold sequins. Farah's sleek black hair was piled high in a bun and held in place with a tiara blazing with diamonds and six lime-sized emeralds from the Iranian crown jewels. Other multi-carat emeralds and diamonds adorned a collar at her throat-and Jeweler Harry Winston, who had recently restyled her jewels especially for the party, described them as priceless. Jackie Kennedy, never one to be overshadowed, wore a chic Chez Ninon ball gown with a sleek white...
...following night, the Shah entertained the Kennedys at a brilliant banquet that would have pleased Scheherazade. The setting was the brand-new Iranian chan cellery, a tasteful combination of modern architecture and ancient Persian mosaics, rugs and objets d'art. As they dined on caviar - freshly flown from the Caspian Sea - and pheasant à la périgourdme, the Kennedys and their hosts looked out on a rain-washed courtyard where Persian fountains played. And once more, the ladies were the radiant center of attraction - Jackie, in a strapless pink satin Dior gown, looked more like a Persian princess...
...without salary), a landlord may be forced to sell most of his holdings, is compensated by the government over a ten-year period. The Shah, who in the last decade has distributed to peasants more than half of his own 1,500,000 acres, is one of the few Iranian landlords with any liking for reform. Most cling tenaciously to the feudal system, which has given big landowners control of three-fourths of Iran's arable soil. Some 17,000 villages are owned outright by 160 wealthy families, and most of the nation's 16 million peasants...
...into operation most of the big economic development projects for land irrigation, road improvement and bridge building under Iran's Seven-Year Plan. He also is a highly successful Teheran banker with a reputation for hard work and unswerving honesty. Last November he was arrested by Iranian police and carted off to jail on vague charges of extravagance and misuse of public funds...
There was little doubt that the case had more to do with what Ebtehaj had been saying than what he had been doing. In speeches and to visitors, he had openly criticized the corruption, graft, and suppression of freedom on the highest levels of the Iranian government, even within the Shah's court. Word of his criticism reached Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi himself, leading some to suggest that Ebtehaj's real offense was lese majest...