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The article focuses on Tehran, Iran, which is one of a half-dozen Asian cities, which describe themselves as the "Paris of the East." Women of fashion dress in the latest Paris style. Social life is highly polished, even decadent. The government seems to have more control and a better sense of direction than it had four years ago. There is no autonomous, pro-Soviet regime in the north to cause concern. Tribal leaders who were formerly independent rulers now join in central government politics. The army, which used to be disrupted by conflicts between rightist, pro-British senior commanders and leftist, pro-Soviet junior officers, has been unified and somewhat modernized by the Chief of Staff.

This article focuses on several political developments in world. A journal of Manchester "Guardian" charged on October 8, 1951 that a new Persian effort to start negotiations on a basis more favorable to Britain was needlessly rebuffed. Publishing the full text of the proposals, the journal "Guardian" suggested they were rejected largely because the Foreign Office and its embassy in Teheran had decided not to negotiate with Mohammed Mossadegh, ex-prime minister of Iran, under any conditions. British officials had also pointed out that the document was undated, unsigned, and not on official paper.

This article presents a speech by British foreign minister George Nathaniel Curzon's speech in the House of Lords in Great Britain on July 26, 1921 in which the he attempted to explain Great Britain's forced withdrawal from Persia as a result of the Persian Government's refusal to ratify the Anglo-Persian Agreement of 1919. Parts of Lord Curzon's speech were printed in the International Relations Section for September 7, 1921 of London, England periodical Times. Lord Curzon once described himself as a friend of Persia, which he was not at present.

Presents an update of various political developments in the U.S. as of November 21, 1949. Account of the upcoming visit of His Imperial Majesty Mohammed Reza Shah Pahlevi Shehinshah of Iran to Washington D.C.; Reason for the emergence of trade-union periodicals in the U.S.; Chances of Bob Taft in upcoming U.S. Senate elections.

The article reports on the crackdown of students and unemployed led by the outlawed Communist Tudeh Party by the government of Iranian Prime Minister Mohammed Mossadegh. Eight of the rioters and a police colonel were dead after the rioters were confronted by 5,000 police and soldiers supported by 5,000 nationalist hoodlums. The riots indicate that the Mossadegh regime is suffering without oil revenue.

The article presents an outlook on issues related to business and the U.S. government as of August 11, 1951. A new set of manufacturers' regulations that will replace CPR-22, CPR-30 and the other tailored orders are about to be implemented. It says that the Iranian crisis will cost the Western Hemisphere 60 million barrels of oil before it is settled. The Democrats are hoping to take over the Republican Senate seats currently occupied by Harry Cain, Zales Ecton and Arthur Watkins.

The article presents excerpts from various periodicals including an excerpt from the August 13, 1954 issue of the "New York Times," quoting Iranian prime minister Fazlollah Zahedi on the impoverished state of Iran, and an excerpt from the July 9, 1954 issue of the "San Diego Evening Tribune," concerning actress Dorothy McGuire working with theater director Alex Segal.

The article reports on the oil venture of ENI SpA, Italy' state-owned oil company, that involves profit sharing with Iran on a 30-70 basis.

Now pending in the Supreme Court of the state of New York is a most unusual and little publicized lawsuit whose by products overshadow its initial and private purposes. It lefts the lead on the $2 billion in hand American cash that has been funneled into Iran since World War II. This article reports the substance of the testimony exhibits and provides evidence, which have been spread on the public record in the course of this proceeding. The interest of the suit lies not in the fact that certain payments have been made to certain named individuals, for whom there could be and doubtlessly there are entirely plausible and satisfactory explanations.

The conjuncture of events in Greece, Turkey and Iran, all of them indicating great social instability, is strikingly significant. For they are precisely the three countries in which the cold war began in 1946 and 1947. It was in Iran in 1945-46 that the United States first perfected its get tough policy and helped to force the Russians out; and it was in Greece and Turkey in 1947 that the United States charted its commitment to an anti-Communist Europe in its first military-aid crash program, the Truman Doctrine. Now, sixteen years after that intervention, the Greek government planned a monument for former U.S. President Harry S. Truman, showing him, several times life-size, holding his great charter in his hand.

The article features Mohammed Mossadegh, Premier of Iran in 1951 who was named "Man of the Year" by "Time Magazine." Mossadegh was born in 1879 to a mother who was a princess of the Kajar dynasty of Persia and a father who served as the Iranian Finance Minister for 30 years. He was instrumental for the nationalization of the oil industry in Iran, which had been controlled by the British government-owned company Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. Mossadegh was also famous for his policies that does not recognize the Western countries.

The article focuses on the construction and administration of the Pahlavi University in Iran. During a trip to the U.S. in 1963, the Shah of Iran spoke with officials of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on the transformation of a mediocre college in the southern part of Iran into a modern educational complex based on American models. Partly as a result of these talks, Pahlavi University was created in 1964. Taken collectively, Pahlavi University's varied physical plant is an impressive testament to the nation's ability to mobilize its resources and accomplish its projects. But real problems of the university are in offices and conference rooms where the daily affairs of the school, as well as its long-range goals, are entrusted to officials who cannot emerge from shackles of bureaucracy.

This article explores the attitude of Iran towards the United States, based on the latter's political influence in the Middle East. Though the United States enjoyed an enormous reservoir of good will in Iran during the last two decades the political regime in Iran, Flow finds it profitable to engage in some anti-American politics of its own. And, this, ironically enough, despite the fact that the regime has been brought to power and maintained there so far largely by the U.S. military and financial aid. The tragicomic scenario of this turnabout is some what complicated, and its understanding requires a keen sense for the perceptions of Persian political life.

The article focuses on the investments of Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. (AIOC) Ltd. outside Iran which are helping the company face the impact of the nationalization. The opening of a new refinery in France is said to bring AIOC one step closer to the complete replacement of lost Iranian oil. The article mentions the goal of AIOC to cover its Iranian losses by 1955 or 1956. Among the major refinery projects anticipated to give AIOC a boost are located in England, Australia and Aden.

The article focuses on the oil venture between Iran and Italy in which a 50-50 partnership will be formed between a subsidiary of Italian state company Ente Nazionale Idrocarburi (ENI) and National Iranian Oil Co. of Iran to create SIRIP. It cites the plan of Iran to let new concessions in October 1957. As a result of the deal, oil countries in Latin America and the Middle East decided to demand renegotiation of concession contracts. It describes the success and organizational structure of ENI.

Iran was pressed by the British into laying its quarrel with the Soviet Union before the United Nations, though the long-standing British-Russian rivalry in the area gives the charge credibility; but Iran was not pressed to withdraw. China seems assured of a democratic and unified government as a result of the ratification of the decisions of the Political Consultative Council by the Kuomintang standing committee. Intervention has almost as bad a name in Latin America as non-intervention in Europe. Both have come to signify, paradoxically, the same thing: big-power support of the forces of reaction. Non-intervention-or the treachery that bore that label-made possible the triumph of fascism in Spain. Intervention kept or put tyrants in power in half a dozen American republics.

American and European romanticists in their efforts to denigrate progress point to the art and literature of backward countries as evidence of the richness of old civilizations. An American will quote a few verses from Omar Khayyam, then lapse into elaborate praise for the wisdom of the ancient Iranians. Iranians, for example, refer to the country as the land of poetry. Every Iranian, even the muleteer and the laborer, is said to be a poet. it is in our soul, in our blood. They also believe that their literature has long been second to none. This extravagant adulation has encouraged Middle Easterners to languish complacently in self-delusion.

This article presents information related to political issues around the world. Striking evidence of the "state of nerves" into which the United States has got is furnished by the number of ordinarily calm and cool-headed men who are now going about filled with unconcealed apprehension. Talk of war between Russia and Turkey over the Persian boundary dispute is taken in some quarters seriously. The quarrel is of nearly a year's standing. Difference of opinion between Turkey and Persia as to the frontier line in the north was followed by what Persia has designated as invasion of her territory by Turkish troops.

The article discusses a series of talks between Iranian Premier Mohammed Mossadegh and U.S. Assistant Secretary of State George McGhee regarding Iran's oil sector. According to the author, talking with Mossadegh has become one of the more useless exercises in modern diplomacy. As the talks ended, Mossadegh still remains strong to his position, that is, he would not allow British technicians to handle Iran's oil industry. In addition, he demanded a wholesale price for his country's oil that both the U.S. and Great Britain regard as too expensive.

Another country is making an effort to break into the growing class of small and oppressed nationalities. As the result of a meeting of the ministry, dignitaries and notables of Iran the Government has drawn up a list of terms to be presented in behalf of Iran at the peace conference. With Russian imperialism dead, Iran has only Great Britain to deal with and so with U.S. President Woodrow Wilson's fourteen points before its eyes the Iran Government, among other demands, is asking the admission of a delegation from Iran to the peace conference; the cancellation of all treaties, conventions and agreements in contravention of the sovereignty and independence of Iran and guarantees from the powers to safeguard in the future its sovereignty and territorial integrity and economic and political independence.

The article discusses the political problems encountered by Overseas Consultants, Inc. (OCI) before starting their seven-year development program in Iran worth 650 million U.S. dollars. It mentions the creation of the Plan Organization by the Iranian government to supervise the OCI development work leaving no authority for OCI but to serve only as consultant. It notes that the drain on the resources of Plan Organization placed a financial hole on the development program that kept the project from proceeding on as scheduled.