Word: iranians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Iran was under martial law for the second time in a month. Right-wing Nationalists and Communists, brawling in Teheran, set fire to offices, bombarded members of the U.S. military mission with rocks and cabbages. Mossadegh's problem was how to make sure that the Iranian army, which is four weeks behind in its pay, will stay loyal to the government. Desperately, he set up teams of free-lance tax gatherers with orders to soak Iran's wealthy landlords and traders for some of the taxes they have never bothered to pay. The tax collectors will...
...Standard (N.J.), Socony-Vacuum, Standard of California, Texas Co., Gulf; Anglo-Iranian, Royal Dutch-Shell...
...Washington's view that the fall of weepy Premier Mohammed Mossadegh would probably bring the Communist Tudeh party into power. They no longer saw any real alternative, now that the last pro-British Premier (Ahmed Qavam) had been shoved aside, the young Shah rendered helpless, and the Iranian army brought under Mossadegh's control. But they still shrank from going to Mossadegh's aid and on his terms: helping the man who expropriated Anglo-Iranian's wealth would be too humiliating. Britain, predicted one observer, would pursue a policy of masterly inactivity...
Prince Gholam Reza Pahlevi, 20-year-old brother of the Shah of Iran and a first lieutenant in the armored section of the Iranian army, arrived in Manhattan bound for Fort Knox, Ky. and a 14-week course in U.S. armored tactics...
Iran's Parliament listened to hotheaded demands that Premier Mossadegh expel the U.S. Mission which helps train the 140,000-man Iranian army. Mossadegh let it be known that he might prefer Yankee dollars to Yankee soldiers...