Word: zolfaghari
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...none at all. Item: a constituency near Kerman beat up the man Zahedi sent there to be elected; Zahedi suspended its balloting. Item: a former Iranian Ambassador to the U.S. announced himself as the pro-Mossadegh candidate from Kashan; Zahedi forced him to remain in Teheran. Item: the powerful Zolfaghari tribe in the northwest rigged the election of two pro-Mossadegh deputies; Zahedi rushed in four tanks and arrested the chiefs for using "undue force" on the voters. Moral: nobody in Iran save Fazlollah Zahedi is allowed to use undue force on voters...
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