Word: shahs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Razmara, Iran's best postwar Premier, was attending a memorial to a recently deceased religious leader in the Mosque of the Shah. In the press of other business, Razmara had almost forgotten the ceremony and was hurrying in order not to be late. As he stepped briskly into the courtyard, a bearded young Moslem fanatic named Khalil Tahmassebi slid out of a crowd, got behind the Premier, opened fire. The first pistol bullet, which struck the back of Ali Razmara's head, was enough to cause instant death. Two other bullets hit him in the neck and chest...
...succeed Razmara as Premier, the Shah appointed Hussein Ala, 68, postwar Iranian Ambassador to the U.S. Hussein Ala is the doughty little statesman who, in 1946, had stood up at Lake Success and successfully demanded that the Russians clear out of the northern Iranian province of Azerbaijan. Until this week, Ala was in charge of a generous and sense-making program of parceling out land, owned by the Shah, to landless peasants. Parliamentary confirmation of Hussein Ala was promptly voted...
...Soraya Esfandiari, 18, Europe-schooled daughter of a chief of the proud Bakhtiari tribe by his German wife; in glittering Marmar Palace, Teheran, Iran. Wearing a Dior silver lamé gown with 6,000 diamonds, the bride rode to the simple ceremony in a gold-trimmed Rolls-Royce. The Shah ordered festivities limited to one day, food distributed to the poor. Among the wedding gifts: a $1,500 crystal bowl from Harry Truman, a mink coat (reported value: $150,000) from Joseph Stalin, a $70,000 hospital from the British-owned Anglo-Iranian...
...Bang-Up Job. Some of these efforts have good results. Last year the Shah picked as Premier his close friend, Ali Razmara, who had done a bang-up job as army chief of staff. The Majlis resents Razmara, as it resents any kind of effective government. "I have to spend 75% of my time fighting off intrigues," the new Premier said. In spite of the Majlis and the Princess Ashraf, Premier Razmara began getting things done...
...Then the Shah, suspicious of Razmara's growing popularity, turned against him. He forced Razmara to take two cabinet members he did not want. Razmara's old army division was merged with the Imperial Guard, and many of Razmara's army friends were shifted out of key posts. Caught between the resentful Majlis and the suspicious Shah, Razmara is still hanging on, still serving his country well. (Princess Ashraf wants his job to go to an old friend of hers, Ali Soheily, now Iranian minister to London...