Word: sartip
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...send half a dozen young men each year to serve Persia's dissolute Shah and strong young Riza, born on the shores of the Caspian Sea, was mustered into a Persian regiment of Cossacks. He tasted battle chiefly against bandits and won steady promotion to the rank of Sartip with 3,000 Cossacks under his command. For a fateful coup d'état it was Sartip Riza who was sought out in 1921 by Persia's wily Saiyid ZiaudDin, a wealthy newspaper publisher and astute political wangler...
...Sartip Riza marched with supreme bold ness on Teheran and such was the Army's disgust with do-nothing Ahmed Shah that a few hours of quiet maneuvering turned the trick as whole battalions went over to Publisher Saiyid Zia-ud-Din's revolution. Not long after the publisher found he had made the mistake of his life. The upstart Sartip had got himself appointed Minister of War and the publisher was exiled to Baghdad. Two years passed while brooding Riza Khan intrigued, cajoled and bribed among the military, forcing his deep plans and domineering power to triumph...
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