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...Kill Me Now." Held in strict detention-first in Teheran's plush Officers' Club, then in the Sultanabad army barracks some ten miles from the city-Mossy was allowed to see only his guards, a military prosecutor, his wife, daughter and nurse. But the ex-Premier knew that if his performance was good enough, its fame would spread to the streets and make it harder than ever for the Shah and new Premier Fazlollah Zahedi to get him off the political stage. Resolutely he resisted the prosecutor, who came to interrogate him in preparation for a trial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAN: Problem Prisoner | 9/21/1953 | See Source »

...Persian Gulf, the railroad crosses the Anglo-Iranian Oil Co.'s pipeline; passes through Ahwaz, where Alexander the Great's fleet landed 2,263 years ago; bridges the swift Karun River; climbs mountains to reach Dizful, famed city of rats. Thence the line passes northeast through Sultanabad, city of rugs, and Qum, holy city of the Shi'ites, to reach Teheran. From the capital the road continues east, northeast, over a 7,200-foot-high mountain pass to reach Bandar Shah, new German-built port near the ancient city of Astarabad and on the semitropical shores...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAN: Shah's Dream | 9/5/1938 | See Source »

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