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Word: khuzestan (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...good case can be made for the proposition that Iran is a candidate for the kind of Yalta-type partitioning that Soviet and American statesmen engineered in Europe in 1945. Such a partitioning would secure the oil of Khuzestan for our European and Japanese allies and, by restoring Azerbaijan to Soviet hegemony, would give them a buffer insulating the people of Turkistan from the virus of Muslim self-determination...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Nov. 17, 1980 | 11/17/1980 | See Source »

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