Word: pishevari
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Dates: during 1945-1945
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...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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