The strangling of Persia; a story of the European diplomacy and oriental intrigue that resulted in the denationalization of twelve million Mohammedans, a personal narrative . he secret police, whohad been informed of a conspiracy to kill the house was raided and a bomb-making plant found, to-gether with a number of nitroglycerin bombs. Under policeexamination they confessed that they had been paid by cer-tain Persian reactionaries to blow me up while I was drivingthrough the Life in Teheran during this period did not seem to me to beparticularly healthful. It
The strangling of Persia; a story of the European diplomacy and oriental intrigue that resulted in the denationalization of twelve million Mohammedans, a personal narrative . he secret police, whohad been informed of a conspiracy to kill the house was raided and a bomb-making plant found, to-gether with a number of nitroglycerin bombs. Under policeexamination they confessed that they had been paid by cer-tain Persian reactionaries to blow me up while I was drivingthrough the Life in Teheran during this period did not seem to me to beparticularly healthful. It was not uncommon while sitting inmy office to hear bullets whistling over the garden from the i On December 13 the chief mujtahid at Najaf, Mullah MuhammadKazim al-Khorasani, died suddenly, under very suspicious circumstances ashe was on the eve of starting for Teheran, as it was rumored, to preach the holy war against the Russians. He was commonly believed to havebeen poisoned by Russian agents. He and his two colleagues, Hajji Husaynibn Khalil and Mullah Abdullah al-Mazandarani, had been foremost amongthe Islamic clergy in supporting the Nationalist cause in TYPICAL PERSIAN AND ARMENIAN FIGHTING MEN.
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