Word: teheran
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...summer palace outside Teheran, tough old Reza Shah Pahlavi of Iran listened intently to his radio. In London a BBC announcer was reading a famous Persian ballad, and through the spitting of static the Shah could hear an old story: how in the Middle Ages a heroic blacksmith named Kahveh killed a Persian tyrant. The poem ended, the announcer asked: "Where is Kahveh today...
...Since the 80-hour war ended three weeks ago, old Reza Shah Pahlavi, many of whose political theories seem to be concentrated in his good right toe, had locked himself in his palace at Teheran and put to shame the classic sulk of Achilles. It was reliably reported that a Cabinet Minister who ventured to pay a call on the Shah was flogged with the flat of the royal saber, then punted off the premises by the royal boot...
...royal bootsman should himself be given the boot. Increasingly fed up were the Allies with his shilly-shallying over a clause in the peace terms which called for delivery of all German nationals in his realm. One day last week the British expected to start 225 Nazis rolling from Teheran for internment in India; the Russians had earmarked 50 for Soviet sojourn. After 24 hours of diddle-dumpling run-around from the German Legation, the British received 72 prisoners, the Russians eight. The Allies threatened to get good & tough (i.e., to occupy Teheran) unless consignments speeded up immediately. Next...
Meantime, within the compound of the German Legation's summer offices, eight miles outside the Iranian capital of Teheran, some 700 of the Führer's subjects were packed sardine-tight, living in tents. Hundreds more had fled to the provinces and were in hiding. It was reported that the Allies would round them up, send them to India and Siberia. Also allegedly somewhere in Iran was explosion-whiskered Haj Amin El-Husseini, Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, who engineered Arab riots in Palestine, helped Seyid Rashid Ali El-Gailani stage his revolt in Iraq. The British...
Kismet, etc. One of the first acts of the new Government after the 1921 ride-in to Teheran was to tear up the treaty the bleak-brained Ahmad had signed with the U.S.S.R. The Bolsheviks condemned the aggressive policy of the Tsar, promised never to interfere in Persia's internal affairs, but reserved the right to occupy it temporarily in the event another power used Persia for an attack on Soviet Russia...