Word: teheran
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tribesman, the Brother of Allah is his rifle. The warning was uttered by tall (6 ft. 2 in.), husky (220 Ibs.), handsome Mohamed Nasser Khan, 42, Khan of Khans, leader of southern Iran's warlike Qashqai nomads. They have always resisted attempts by a weak central government in Teheran to manage their affairs...
...from "a foreign power." Britain indignantly denied any part in the revolt (causing New York Post Columnist Edgar Ansel Mowrer to exclaim: "then fate is pro-British"). Knowing Britons hinted that they would not be so foolish as to stir up a tribal revolt which would further weaken the Teheran Government, make it still more vulnerable to Russian pressure...
With or without British backing, Nasser Khan's expert cavalrymen (more than 10,000 strong) and their 150,000 fellow tribesmen might easily win concessions from Teheran. Most likely outcome: local autonomy for conservatives in the south, like that given last spring to leftists in the north...
...doubt that Lieut. Hawkins has carefully studied the U.N. charter, Yalta, Teheran, the history of southeastern and central Europe, sociology and economics, so that I can be certain on his word that Russia is obviously and entirely in the wrong...
Last week the Soviet-inspired agitators shifted their tactics to Mosul in Iraq, head of Britain's Mediterranean oil pipeline. Their threats were backed by a vehement anti-British campaign in Teheran's Russophile newspapers...