Word: shahs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Successors to the leftist People's Mujahedin, which helped overthrow Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, the soldiers of the rebel force are bivouacked in five camps in the barren salt desert of Iraq, just out of range of Iranian artillery. Critics call them pawns of the Iraqis, who are said to have given the resisters money and arms in addition to a generous swath of desert land. They also say Rajavi hardly represents a democratic alternative to the current regime...
Rajavi, a former student leader trained as a metallurgical engineer, rules the rebel force together with her husband Massoud, who was head of the People's Mujahedin when the Shah was overthrown and exiled in 1979. Massoud was soon forced to flee the country as the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini began killing and imprisoning Massoud's largely secular followers. Since then Maryam and Massoud have built up not only one of the world's most formidable rebel armies but a sophisticated resistance movement as well, with offices around the world, plus five radio stations and a new satellite-television network that...
...However, Shah says he still intends to go to bed at 9 p.m. on Friday to make sure he gets enough sleep...
...Kang] told me stuff like not to get to the test center too early because then I'd have to wait outside," says Jay B. Shah '98, who says he originally planned to arrive early so that he could get settle...
...trip south. Last week half a dozen such Russian-built transports were sitting on the tarmac in Kulyab, some of them painted in camouflage. Much of the aid is going to a man who used to be the Soviet army's most feared adversary in Afghanistan, Ahmad Shah Massoud, one of the leaders of the forces combatting the Taliban. Russian officials acknowledge that Kulyab has become a "reserve airfield" for the anti-Taliban forces, but will not admit to providing military aid. Russia could stop the flow of arms if it wanted: a regiment of the Russian army's 201st...