Word: zahedi
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...Twice in his life he has been police chief of Teheran (pop. 1,000,000), a job which attests to his courage and his capacity for intrigue. During World War II, when the British and the Russians jointly occupied Iran and deposed the present Shah's father, Zahedi commanded the Isfahan military district in the South. The British got wind that Zahedi was masterminding...
Melliyun-I-Iran, a clandestine nationalist gang plotting with German secret agents to foment revolt against the Allied occupiers. On the side, Zahedi was making a tidy profit by commandeering the region's wheat stocks and holding on until starving Iranians forked over a top price...
...British sent Cloak & Dagger Agent Fitzroy Maclean (later chief of a mission to Tito, now a Conservative M.P.) to capture Zahedi. Maclean kidnaped him right under the nose of his own guard and shipped him off to Palestine for the rest of the war as a prisoner. In Zahedi's bedroom at the time of his arrest, Maclean itemized the following: a collection of German automatic weapons; some opium; a large supply of silk underwear; letters from German parachutist-agents operating in the hills; an illustrated register of the city's prostitutes...
Home again at war's end, Zahedi first held an important regional army command, then was Minister of the Interior when Mossadegh first took office. Mossadegh kept him on. The two cooperated to boot out the British oil company; but Mossadegh's toleration of the outlawed
Tudeh Reds enraged General Zahedi. On that issue they parted, and became sworn enemies...