Word: teheranis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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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...
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