Word: farsi
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They are having some success. Using Farsi-speaking agents to track smugglers, U.S. narcotics officers have confiscated heroin with a street value of some $94 million in the past five months. French police two weeks ago arrested Jean Jehan, the "silver fox," who had figured in the French-connection narcotics ring and had recently resurfaced in the Southwest Asian traffic...
...atavistic cross-cultural rage. Their anger has been ripened by the long spectacle of their nation's ineffectuality and the humiliation of the failed rescue raid, by the nightly TV pageant of Iranian mobs pumping their fists in the air and screaming death threats in Farsi, and by the image of Sadegh Ghotbzadeh's cretinous smirk. Dark impulses that normally stay below, like Ahab's harpooners, begin to straggle up on deck...
Whatever the case, both Washington and the Swiss denied that Carter had sent the message to Khomeini. Ghotbzadeh then shifted ground, saying that the message was an oral communication from an intermediary and that he himself had translated it into Farsi...
...role. On the one hand, their Ambassador at the United Nations, Oleg Troyanovsky, both by oratory and vote supported the Security Council resolution demanding the immediate release of the American hostages. On the other hand, Soviet propaganda has done what it could to make mischief. At first the Soviet Farsi-language broadcasts, beamed from Baku into northern Iran, harshly criticized the U.S. These were toned down after Washington protested. But last week, in its harshest volley to date, Pravda accused the U.S. of trying to "blackmail Iran by massing forces on its frontiers" and said that Washington was turning...
...close friend said that, although Swift speaks only elementary Farsi, the official language of Iran, "she is a remarkable person and that may have been a factor" in the militants' decision to keep her hostage...