Word: persianism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Quietly, Nicholson packed his bags and departed for Bagdad. Correspondent Delmer got off a last jab at the government as he bought air passage to Beirut. He handed the telegraph office a message to his office, knowing it would be relayed to Iranian officials. Wrote Delmer: "I called the Persian government oil-grabbers and contract-breakers, and I still...
Young Mohammed was educated in the shadow of the Shah's palace. Between assignments in classical Persian and Arabic, he hunted gazelles and wild pigs with the favorites of the Shah's court. His mother, a woman with a strong social conscience, took him with her on her visits to Najmieh Hospital, which she had founded in Teheran (and which Mossadeq still supports today). Outside the palace walls, young Mohammed found a troubled, poverty-stricken land beset by swarms of foreign adventurers and corrupted by the imperial court's mismanagement...
...energy and total lack of tact, he tried summarily to dismiss hundreds of do-nothing officeholders. Some of them wrote him threatening letters in blood. He was fired, but in 1919 Mossadeq jumped up again. He founded his political reputation by attacking the British (who had just forced the Persian government to sign a treaty making the country virtually a protectorate). He was exiled again; in 1920 he was back as governor of a province, promptly threatened to plunge Iran into civil war over a disagreement with the central government at Teheran. In 1922 he became Minister of Finance...
...trembling hands, started to read. After a few words he choked, his eyes filled with tears. He swayed from side to side. An aide quickly grasped his right arm to prevent him from falling. Mossadeq blew his nose, shook his head, and read on unevenly in singsong Persian. As he swayed back & forth, the aide had a hard time keeping him on his feet...
...Enemy's Voice. "Thirty-five thousand Persians in the square went mad. A tremendous wave of sound rolled across the darkening square and crashed against its walls. The mass of humanity became a writhing thing, twisting and turning in ecstasy. Thirty-five thousand fists reached into the sky. Red, green and white Persian flags waved frantically...