Word: tabriz
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russia; Persia's series of helpless, do-nothing governments permitted Russia to pose as the hope of Persia's wretched twelve million. When they occupied Azerbaijan during and after World War II, the Russians made a fine show of constructiveness. Their puppet government paved some streets in Tabriz, opened a radio station, started land reforms...
...plane. But when proof was needed of the Russian evacuation of the Iranian province of Azerbaijan, a bureau correspondent hopped into a plane flown by the American Embassy's air attache, an ex-fighter pilot, in order to see the Russian troop convoys pulling away northward from Tabriz...
Capitulation. The Persian Chief of Staff laid out complete operation plans for invading Azerbaijan. Last week, as zero hour neared, the radio at Tabriz (Azerbaijan's capital) shrilled defiance: "We've issued orders to our army to stop Gavam's troops at all costs. . . . Long live the Azerbaijan nation...
...word of support from Moscow. It never came. Pishevari capitulated, and then fled across the Soviet border with a few followers. Thousands of Azerbaijani lined the roads and hurrahed Gavam's troops with a cheer never raised before on land or sea: "Long live the Security Council !" The Tabriz radio now said: "Being desirous of . . . proving to the world that we want peace . . . we have decided to help the Government in its task. . . . Long live the sovereignty and independence of Persia...
Mianeh is five miles beyond the pass, and is the first city of any importance on the main highway and railway route to Tabriz, Azerbaijan capital...