Word: yaz
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Dates: during 1946-1946
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...Rising Wind. The best Iran's Gavam could do was to bend with the rising Soviet wind. The increased Tudeh representation in his Cabinet (which includes Dr. Morteza Yaz di, a wealthy Soviet sympathizer) got the posts of Commerce & Industry, Education and Health, but not the key posts of War, Foreign Affairs (Gavam) and Justice. To counter Tudeh agitation the British moved some troops up to Basra, close to the Abadan flashpoint...