Word: teheran
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...West still hoped that the Teheran government could be saved from Soviet puppethood. High Washington officials said privately and prayerfully that the Council's firm stand had made it harder for Moscow to take over all of Iran. London was less optimistic; Labor...
Thunder on the Right. Meanwhile from Iran, came an explanation of why the Iranian Government was playing up to Russia. Teheran needed Russia's support in domesticating Azerbaijan's Russian-inspired rebels. Trouble was brewing elsewhere in Iran. As the Red Army withdrew, rightist politicians and landowners, who consider Premier Ahmed Gavam's Government proSoviet, were going on the warpath. In Mazanderan, along the Caspian coast, armed bands were attacking left-wing peasants and workers. In Khorosan, fundamentalist Mohammedans were organizing to combat Communist influence by abolishing the reforms made a generation ago by Reza Shah Pahlevi...
...Teheran, Premier Ahmed Gavam announced a "complete agreement" with Moscow covering departure of the Red Army, a Russo-Iranian oil company with the Soviets holding 51% control, and direct Teheran-Azerbaijan negotiations as "an internal Iranian affair." The tie-in was as plain, if not as pretty, as a Persian poet's metaphors...
...backdown," there was a chance that the U.S. public might be misled into thinking that the Iranian issue had been settled once & tor all. In sober fact, Russia had probably never intended an indefinite military occupation of northern Iran. What she had always wanted was 1) a Government in Teheran amenable to Russian demands, and 2) access to Iranian oil. In the Russo-Iranian treaty Gavam had indicated a high decree of amenability...
...very simple, said Andrei Gromyko: Moscow and Teheran had already settled their dispute and UNO need not bother to consider the case. The Netherlands' sharp-nosed, sharp-tongued Eelco van Kleffens pressed for the exact nature and terms of what Gromyko had referred to as "an agreement," "an understanding," and "negotiations...