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Despite his fear of the Russians, the Shah receives extensive aid from the U.S.S.R. By Soviet count, 134 projects have been launched with Moscow's help, among them metallurgical plants, engineering facilities and a trans-Iranian trunk gas pipeline. Last March the Soviets built a new blast furnace at Isfahan; new smelting and rolling mills will follow soon. All told, these projects are claimed to account for the production of 90% of all coal in Iran, almost 90% of the iron ore and 70% of the steel...
Films: Center for Middle Eastern Studies--Shah name, Isfahan of Sha Abbas, Al-Andalus. 7:30 p.m., Science Center D. Free...
Films: Center for Middle Eastern Studies--Shah name, Isfahan of Sha Abbas, Al-Andalus. 7:30 p.m., Science Center D. Free...
...habit of training local workers to build and run completed facilities, a practice that has been much appreciated by the governments of Greece, Taiwan, Indonesia and South Korea. Partly for these reasons, Iran recently favored Fluor with a contract to build 65% of a $750 million refinery near Isfahan...
Iran's army boasts about 3,000 armored vehicles and has more than 1,000 helicopters, including the American-made SeaCobra attack chopper, which even the U.S. Army does not have. What is probably the world's biggest helicopter-training facility has been constructed at Isfahan in central Iran. It is staffed by U.S. experts who, with their families, form a colony of 5,000. The Shah's navy includes nearly 40 destroyers, frigates and Hovercraft?some armed with missiles. Iran is now so important a customer for American arms that the head of the U.S. military mission in Tehran...