Word: teheran
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Major Fateh, commanding the battalion, clamped down martial law, seized Najafi and his chief aide, and ordered them shot. But as dawn broke, Fateh's superior officer, mindful of Tudeh influence at Teheran, stayed the executions. After three tense days of negotiations, a temporary compromise was patched up and the plant reopened...
...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...
Iran. Last week the Council received a report from Teheran that the Red Army had withdrawn from Azerbaijan. Iran's Ambassador Hussein Ala wondered how thorough were the findings of his Government's investigating commission to Azerbaijan. Poland's Oscar Lange asked Ala: "Did the commission make its investigation from an airplane by telescope...
...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...
Michael Foot, just back from an official visit to Teheran, said this week that the Russians were likely to keep a "dominat ing force" in Azerbaijan and planned to control Iran's elections...