Word: shahs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...deal. A weepy Mossadegh (TIME, Jan. 7, 1952) tried to rule from a hospital cot, and Iran was in danger of a Communist coup. That danger is safely past. Iran's Premier is a former ambassador to, and a good friend of, the U.S. The 37-year-old Shah now has firm control of his country, and on a recent trip to Moscow ably defended his country's membership in the anti-Communist Baghdad Pact. Americans help train the army, advise many government departments. Iran usually sides with the Arabs, but disliked Nasser's seizure...
First leaked last April, the news was made official last week by Iran's Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi that his only child, early-ripening Princess Shanaz, 16, daughter by the Shah's first wife (Egypt's Princess Fawzia, divorced by the Shah in 1948 for her failure to bear him a son), will soon be married. Her fiancé: U.S.educated (University of Utah) Ardashir Zahedi, 28, son of Iran's ex-Premier Fazlollah Zahedi who, after helping to boot weepy old Mohammed Mossadegh from the premiership in 1953, was later himself edged out by the Shah...
...college-educated, the leaders in business and all manner of community affairs. Accustomed to receiving their magazines on the same day as many U.S. readers, they are just as quick to let us know when they don't (the secretary ' of TIME-Reader Mohammed Reza Pahlevi. Shah of Iran, is on the phone within two hours to our Teheran distributors, Farajalla Press Agency, if the Shah's copy is delayed...
Briefly interrupting her vacation on the Riviera, where she has been whiling away the sunny summer weeks far from the Shah, Queen Soraya of Iran alighted at Paris' Orly Airport for a shopping binge in the French capital before returning to the Riviera to resume her vacation in queenly solitude...
...When the Shah returned, as he did less than a week later, Mossadegh was through. Though Iran's oil has remained its own property ever since, it is piped out by an international consortium. As for Mossadegh, he was dragged weeping and screaming into court in the bathrobe and pajamas that were his habitual uniform, and after a gaudy trial, sentenced to three years of solitary confinement. "This sentence," he told the court in a flood of tears, "has increased my historic glory...