Word: tehran
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TEHRAN, December 10--Four columns of government troops began an invasion of Azorbaijan today in what may prove to be a challenge to Russian influence, and unconfirmed reports said Mianeh, 80 miles from the Azerbaijan capital, had been captured in a swift advance...
...attack followed by a few days Iran's notification to the United Nation's Security Council that the Soviet Ambassador in Tehran had given a "friendly admonition" against sending troops into the province on the grounds it might create "disturbances" on Russia's frontler...
...Khan, multimillionaire spiritual ruler of some 12,000,000 Ismaili Moslems in India and Africa, took a constructive attitude toward the postwar world by buying some new horses and lining up a new bride.* The pumpkin-shaped sportsman, now living in wartime exile in Switzerland, celebrated his colt Tehran's winning of the $22,000 St. Leger (rhymes with Dillinger) Stakes by buying several horses at England's famed Newmarket sales. The 67-year-old potentate also posted the banns for his fourth marriage (Begum No. 3 divorced him last year). His new intended is tall, black-haired...