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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...
...people of Iran's Azerbaijan province, which under Soviet guidance has proclaimed itself independent of Teheran, were admonished last week on how a free people should dress. A new paper called Azerbaijan, published in Tabriz, denounced the wearing of secondhand clothes sent from...
...threatening clouds of Soviet expansion were beginning to precipitate. Last fortnight, as negotiations between Iran and its rebel Soviet-sponsored Azerbaijan province broke down, Azerbaijan's Russian-installed Radio Tabriz declaimed: "We declare war against Iran. . . ." Later Tabriz dispatches explained that poor flying weather postponed the war. Last week Tabriz reported that Teheran troops were attacking Azerbaijan along 150 miles of the Kurdistan front...