Word: shahverdi
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...tour of the front had not stopped to pick up a 6½-in. by 4½-in.. book found with the dead soldier. He then handed it to Iranian-born Journalist Helene Kafi. A name was scrawled inside the volume in boyish Persian script: Abbas Shahverdi...
...signature offered a poignant reminder that during the 42 months that Iran and Iraq have waged war for control of the strategically vital Strait of Hormuz, an estimated 100,000 soldiers as young as Abbas Shahverdi have fallen in battle. With characteristic zeal, propaganda ministries in Tehran and Baghdad continued last week to churn out the usual contradictory news bulletins of air strikes, casualty figures, shellings and border skirmishes lost...
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