Word: shahs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Teheran's Mosque of the Shah is getting to be no refuge for Premiers of Iran. In 1951, Premier Ali Razmara, one of Iran's ablest men, was assassinated there by a member of the fanatic Fadayan Islam (Crusaders of Islam). Last week 72-year-old Hussein Ala, the ablest of Razmara's successors as Premier, arrived at the mosque for a memorial service. Entering, he shucked his shoes, started across the carpeted floor. He was stopped by a thinly bearded man who drew a revolver and shouted: "Why are there so many prostitutes in the city...
...warned Iran, "Russia is ready to settle all pending accounts with you without fuss, but there are certain evil hands which give you a dagger to injure her face. That you must not do." Russians wined and dined Iranian officials, offered free newsprint to neutralist newspapers. Premier Bulganin invited Shah Reza Pahlevi and his Queen to Moscow, but the cautious young Shah posponed the visit. Said he last week: "The neutrality and peaceful intentions of the Iranian nation in two world wars did not save our country from aggression." Foreign Minister Molotov thundered back: "The pact ... is inconsistent with...
Recalling Afghanistan's big moment in history, when the 18th century's Ahmad Shah made himself first King of the nomadic Afghan tribes and conquered all of northern India, Afghans still dream of spreading out once again. Last week Afghanistan's King Mohammed Zahir Shah rode solemnly through Kabul's dusty, unpaved streets to the Shora-e-Milli (House of Representatives). There he urged his acquiescent Parliament to support the revolts of the Pathan tribes across the border in Pakistan, who are flesh and blood of King Zahir's own royal family. The British...
...much matter were it not for the "terrible bear" to the north. Three years ago, backward* Afghanistan would not have dared to make demands on bigger and well-armed Pakistan. At that time Afghanistan was governed by two of the King's pro-Western uncles. Then Daoud Shah, brother-in-law of the King, began to get ambitious. In Moscow for Stalin's funeral, Daoud talked to Molotov long and earnestly. Six months later, backed by army leaders, Daoud ousted the King's uncles, installed himself as Prime Minister and named his brother Nairn as Foreign Minister...
...Iran, Bahai proselytizing has been a lot more real than in the State Department. Orthodox Moslems have long resented the inroads made by Bahaism among young intellectuals and government leaders-even including some Army generals, such as General Abdulkarim Ayadi, the Shah's own physician. Thi month's suppression of Bahai in Iran came after a steady campaign of anti-Bahai polemics by Moslem leaders during the month-long fast of Ramadan, tradtionally a time for political preaching in Islam. The Moslems forced the government to take over Bahai headquarter with troops, are hoping to close Bahai schools...