Word: iran
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Already the new Iraqi government has withdrawn from the Baghdad Pact, driven Britain's R.A.F. from its Habbaniyah base near Baghdad. Unless the slide toward Communism is halted, the Soviet Union will penetrate the very heart of the Middle East, outflank staunchly pro-Western Turkey and increasingly shaky Iran. Encamped at the head of the Persian Gulf, the U.S.S.R. could then render the rest of the Middle East militarily-and perhaps politically -indefensible by the West...
Telephones jingled in five Baghdad embassies. A procession of limousines, national flags aflutter from their fenders, drove up outside Iraq's yellow brick Foreign Ministry. One by one, the ambassadors of Britain, Turkey, Iran and Pakistan marched inside to receive a note from Iraq's Foreign Minister Hashim Jawad. When they had left, the U.S.'s gangling Ambassador John Jernegan was ushered in and got the same word verbally. Later, at a press conference to which Western correspondents were not invited, Premier Abdul Karim Kassem, Iraq's strongman, announced publicly what the ambassadors had been told...
Iraq's withdrawal from the pact means it no longer is entitled to military help help from the other members--Britain, Iran, Turkey, and Pakistan--in case it is attacked...
Almost as a side thought, Nikita Khrushchev interrupted his word war for Berlin to threaten the Shah of Iran for "insulting" the Soviet Union. The effect was no side issue in Teheran. In a misconceived maneuver during negotiations for Iran's new bilateral agreement with the U.S., the Shah had invited his Soviet neighbors to make him a counteroffer-and then sent them away emptyhanded. "Iran treated us as if we were Luxembourg," huffed Soviet Ambassador Nikolai Pegov. Khrushchev centered all his abuse on the Shah and the Shah alone. "He fears not us but his own people," roared...
...bilateral agreement with the U.S. similar to ones scheduled to be signed at the same time between the U.S. and Baghdad Partners Turkey and Pakistan. Essentially the new agreement, which is not a treaty and therefore requires no two-thirds Senate approval, represents Secretary Dulles' specific extension to Iran of the Eisenhower Doctrine pledge committing the U.S. to go to its aid if Iran is the victim of Communist aggression, direct or indirect...