Word: reza
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, the Shah of Iran, changes Premiers as casually as other men change suits. In Teheran last week, he courteously turned out Assadollah Alam, the 17th Premier in the Shah's 22-year reign, and appointed as Premier No. 18 elegant Hassanali Mansur, who holds a degree in economics and political science from Paris University and is married to an Iranian beauty and heiress named Farideh Emami...
...when there was no Majlis (parliament), and the Shah ruled by decree. Mansur, representing the majority New Iran Party in today's Majlis, has a solid political base. Alam will not suffer overmuch; he becomes guardian of the Shah's son, three-year-old Crown Prince Reza, and president of Pahlevi University in Shiraz...
...bitter, controversial views on almost everything; irascibly, he lashed out in speeches at corruption in the government, dared even to criticize the coterie of advisers around Shah Mo hammed Reza Pahlevi. Once he told the Shah how lucky the royal palace was to have a man like Ebtehaj around, a remark not calculated to amuse the sensitive monarch...
...years Soviet transmitters beamed a propaganda barrage against neighboring Iran, including appeals for insurrection against Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi. These days Moscow's line is more seductive than destructive. In Teheran on a state visit last week, toasting the health of "Your Imperial Majesty," was the titular Soviet Chief of State, Leonid L. Brezhnev, one of Nikita Khrushchev's most promising prot...
Skillful Servant. Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi does not want somebody else. After 15 highly successful months as Premier, Amir Assadollah Khan Alam was renamed last week to head Iran's Cabinet, promptly got down to business with a two-hour state-of-theunion speech to the newly elected Majlis. To be sure, the Shahanshah remains firmly in command of land reform, foreign affairs, financial matters and other basic policies. But as the Shah's skillful grand vizier, Alam has done more to modernize the Peacock Throne than any other Premier in the nation's history...