Word: shahs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Four centuries ago, Persia's Shah Tahmasp looked on the sparkling waters of the Karun River on one side of the Zagros mountain range and at the parched and dusty land around Isfahan on the other side, and issued an imperial decree: let the waters of the Karun be brought to Isfahan so that Isfahan valley may bloom. Thousands of peasants chiseled into the mountainside to cut an aqueduct, but midway they hit a core of hard rock that dented even the Shah's will. Work stopped...
Last week another Shah, 34-year-old Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, journeyed to Isfahan, Iran's third city, to celebrate the completion of the project. Foreigners had come to the aid of the Iranians: Britain's engineering firm of Sir Alexander Gibb and the U.S.'s Point Four Administration, which contributed $200,000 to complete the work in four years. Soon, Karun's waters will flow through the mountains along a 9,000-ft. tunnel and spill over the thirsty Isfahan valley, irrigating 150,000 acres, and making a prosperous farmland out of desert...
...Dulles and U.S. Ambassador Loy Henderson refused to pay blackmail to shifty, dictatorial Premier Mohammed Mossadegh. In so doing they were running a risk that Mossadegh would retaliate by turning oil-rich Iran over to the Communists. The gamble paid off when the Iranian people rose to support the Shah, overthrew Mossadegh and gave the U.S. another chance in Iran...
...Tudeh, as the affair at Ghala morghi air base proved, was still far from squelched. But in its crackdown, the new regime found it had more public backing than it had dared to hope for. In overthrowing Mossadegh and calling their Shah back from his brief exile, Iranians seemed to have given their own patriotism a bracing shot in the arm. "There is an old Iranian proverb: 'There's no room for two kings in a kingdom,' " one Iranian explained. "It was either the Shah or Tudeh. And the people chose the Shah...
...Shah, a shy and gentle young man, repeatedly says that he intends to be a conscientiously constitutional monarch, not an authoritarian like his famed father, Reza Shah Pahlevi, father of modern Iran. But the vast reforms needed to ease Iranians' poverty and the decisive acts necessary to check the underground plotting of the Red-led Tudeh and the supporters of old Mossadegh, must be accomplished fast to save Iran from fresh rebellion and capture by Russia. The new Shah's most immutable enemy is time...