Word: teheran
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...deeply unhappy in Paris; he had been forced to leave his young wife and their two children in Teheran. In his small Left Bank room he became nervous and moody, developed stomach ulcers. When he heard about the ulcers, the Shah allowed his ex-protege to return home...
...British (who had just forced the Persian government to sign a treaty making the country virtually a protectorate). He was exiled again; in 1920 he was back as governor of a province, promptly threatened to plunge Iran into civil war over a disagreement with the central government at Teheran. In 1922 he became Minister of Finance, and at once proceeded to cut the salaries of all bureaucrats (including Parliament members and himself) in half. Officials howled in anguish. Again Mossadeq was fired-but the Teheran voters elected him to Parliament...
...complaining that the elections were rigged (they were), Mossadeq retired to his farm holdings in Ahmabad, west of Teheran, stayed out of politics for 13 years. His health grew worse. In 1930 he went to Berlin for medical treatment, also consulted a psychiatrist about his worsening nervous condition. The psychiatrist was greatly interested in this odd case, but Mossadeq refused to continue seeing...
...extremely shrewd cloakroom politician, Mossadeq set to work forming a political instrument of his own. With eight other deputies from Teheran, he founded the National Front Party. Incredible as it might seem by Western standards, these nine men were able, in a matter of months, to control Iran's 136-member Parliament. They could do it because Mossadeq is one of the few men in Iran who know or care anything about political organization. Except for the Communists, there are no political parties in Iran; most politicians are merely after all they can get by and for themselves...
Last week Hussein Makki, the Prime Minister's right-hand man, took foreign correspondents in Teheran on a tour of the "Pit," a slum of caves and crumbling hovels-all caused, he said, by British exploitation of Iran's natural resources. Oil nationalization was served up to both Iranians and foreigners as a magic cureall...