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Eleven National Front politicians dodged into Teheran's modernistic, $9,000,000 Senate building. Sharing their bast was a local cook, famed for his delicious tchelo kabob (tender lamb strips, rice, raw egg, melted butter), who had brought them food and now could not leave without being arrested by the soldiers surrounding the building with fixed bayonets. Twelve thousand university students surged through the streets shouting for "free elections," until dispersed by firemen with high-pressure hoses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iran: The Bast Seekers | 2/17/1961 | See Source »

...hands only) is guaranteed to satisfy the hungriest man alive. The only problem is one of etiquette: the guest of honor is supposed to eat the sheep's eyeballs. Keith Wheeler, now on Bell's former beat, likes an Iranian dish of young lamb and rice called tchelo kebab, "which Iran should have nationalized instead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Aug. 9, 1954 | 8/9/1954 | See Source »

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