Word: azerbaijani
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...varied scene. In April 1946, Prime Minister Ahmad Gavam first promised to hold an immediate election for the Majlis (Parliament) to ratify the Russian oil concession he had just signed in Moscow. The Russians were then posed menacingly in Azerbaijan. In December 1946, when the Russians abandoned the Azerbaijani Democrats, the election finally "started" with much fanfare. Distribution of registration forms began-by plane, truck and camel back. A TIME correspondent asked Gavam when it would be completed. Fingering his jade conversation beads,* Gavam chuckled, said: "Perhaps in two or three months, Inshallah [if Allah wills...
Grey little Jafar Pishevari, the Azerbaijan leader, waited for word of support from Moscow. It never came. Pishevari capitulated, and then fled across the Soviet border with a few followers. Thousands of Azerbaijani lined the roads and hurrahed Gavam's troops with a cheer never raised before on land or sea: "Long live the Security Council !" The Tabriz radio now said: "Being desirous of . . . proving to the world that we want peace . . . we have decided to help the Government in its task. . . . Long live the sovereignty and independence of Persia...
...Teheran, capital of Iran, elderly Premier Ebrahim Hakimi and his Government churned in angry frustration. Before the Majlis (Parliament), Hakimi, himself an Azerbaijani, hotly declared his opposition to "the acts and treacherous propaganda . . . [of] a band of adventurers." Meantime, he was still trying to go to Moscow...