Word: teheranis
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...says one Middle East expert, "lies the conviction that nothing ever happens in Iran except by the desire of a foreign power." Many of the middle-class Teheran intellectuals and business men who most heatedly denounced the recent election rigging had not even bothered to vote. Scoffed one educated Teherani: "That's for coolies." They also knew it was only a contest between two men outdoing each other in pledged subservience to the Shah. And what hangs most ominously over all Iranian life, too often at court as well as in business life, is the ingrained Iranian tradition...
...Elburz Mountains, or sit beside a pool in a garden nightclub and watch the moon glide across the sky. It was not business: apart from the standstill import trade, business was fair. It was not politics, the capital's favorite indoor & outdoor sport. What really bothered Teherani was the growing realization that the West no longer seemed to care so much what happened to them, having just about exhausted its supply of sympathy, patience and surprise. It was particularly disconcerting, for example, to shout "Yankee go home" at some passing American and to hear him reply, "Of course, tomorrow...
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