Word: teheran
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...Istanbul. In 1514, that famous throne did not even exist. The Peacock Throne was installed by Shah Jahan, Mogul Emperor of Taj Mahal fame, at Delhi. It was carried off by the Persian invader Nadir Shah in 1739, and now stands in the Gulistan Palace, a museum in Teheran, Iran...
...original Peacock Throne of Iran taken from Delhi by Nadir Shah in 1739 has disappeared. The Peacock throne now in the Gulistan Palace, Teheran (see cut) was built in the early loth century by an Isfahan jeweler for Path Ali Shah and was originally called the Sun Throne. There is another throne in the Istanbul museum which is referred to as a Peacock throne...
Caviar & Hairdos. To wealthy Iranians with little stomach for austerity, he cried, "If my government falls, then everyone's life will be in danger. You and you and you." Dr. Amini stepped on sensitive toes by closing Teheran's glittering $9,000,000 airport to all foreign-bound Iranians except those traveling on bona fide business. First casualties were a bevy of Teheran socialites who were sent home in tears. Unmoved, Amini snapped: "Some ladies have been in the habit of going to Paris for hairdos." He slashed imports to save $50 million, arguing that once foreign luxuries...
...invited all common citizens to report to him with any official who asked for a bribe; officials were so chastened that for the first time in years service was rendered citizens without the usual greasing of palms. Said a Teheran lawyer: "An empty pocket now holds as much power as a fat purse...
...peasants," Premier Amini himself, who has none of these particular predilections, owns lands the size of Massachusetts, and it was presumed that these too will be redistributed. But nothing Amini did seemed to mollify the reactionaries and leftists who opposed him. Fortnight ago a military coup engineered by a Teheran garrison officer was averted only when the Shah, then still in Norway, personally telephoned the army chief of staff with orders to stop the plot. The officer who led the aborted coup was disgruntled because some of his friends had been caught in Amini's purge of the army...