7 DECEMBER 1945, page 10

This Province Has Often Exercised A Disturbing, And At Times

a decisive, influence upon the fortunes of the Persian Empire. Zoroaster, or Zarathustra, was himself born in the vicinity of Lake Ururnieh ; it was on Azerbaijan that Tamerlane......

From The Ruins Of His Citadel At Alamut The Ghost

of the Old Man of the Mountains, the Sheikh-el-Jabal, can look down upon the tawny plain of Kasvin and contemplate our present difficulties. It was here, in a hidden valley of......

In The Treaty Entered Into In January, 1942, Between Russia,

Great Britain and Persia, the territorial integrity of the latter country was expressly guaranteed. At the Tehran Conference of December, 1943, it was stipulated that all......

Marginal Comment

By HAROLD NICOLSON T HERE was a man at my private school who taught us geography. In order to beguile our lassitude, or to oil the sticky machinery of our minds, he would draw......

What Is Surprising Is That This Centrifugal Tendency...

assumed the form of a popular uprising. The peasants of Azerbaijan, the artificers of Tabriz, are not politically conscious. It is difficult to understand how the Tudeh, or......