Word: pishevari
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Grey little Jafar Pishevari, the Azerbaijan leader, waited for word of support from Moscow. It never came. Pishevari capitulated, and then fled across the Soviet border with a few followers. Thousands of Azerbaijani lined the roads and hurrahed Gavam's troops with a cheer never raised before on land or sea: "Long live the Security Council !" The Tabriz radio now said: "Being desirous of . . . proving to the world that we want peace . . . we have decided to help the Government in its task. . . . Long live the sovereignty and independence of Persia...
Said Azerbaijan's Premier Jafar Pishevari the following day: "Our country is on a war footing. . . . Russian moral support . . . made it possible for the people to realize a 30-year-old hope...
...Tabriz, capital of Azerbaijan, a purposeful, middle-aged Communist stooge from Baku, Jafar Pishevari, boldly proclaimed himself Premier of the new Azerbaijan Provincial Government...
...Premier" Pishevari was unimpressed. The Tabriz Government, he asserted calmly, would henceforth collect its own taxes, but would continue to recognize the sovereignty of the Teheran Government. Promptly he filed the first Tabriz claim on Teheran: a demand for 30,000,000 rials (approximately $900,000 at the official rate) in salaries for his officials...
...Tabriz, Iran's second city, were clouded with dust and excitement as the National Assembly prepared to proclaim the province an autonomous state, with only the most nominal allegiance to Iran's capital Teheran. A new National Assembly for Azerbaijan was ready to meet and Jafar Pishevari, whose enemies said he came from Russian Baku, was ready to tell the Assembly what...
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