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4.5 - 2. Iran with the main share of the oil production of the Middle East was due. Turkey and Afghanistan (who guarantees their security?) today look with solidarity feelings to the former Persia, in which however no more thousand and one night is played, but where the sober spirit of the ruler Razi Shah prevails. The extent to which Iran is able to counter resistance from its economic and military force may explain the following brief remarks: Iran (formerly Persia), located between the Persian Gulf and the Caspian Sea, is bounded in the north by the Soviet Union, in the east by Afghanistan and Baluchistan, in west by Iraq and Turkey. Of the total oil production in the Middle East (16.7 million to.) Iran alone accounts for 10.3 million tonnes, the exploitation of the oil fields is carried out by the "Anglo-Iranian Oil Company", which is dominated by British capital and is often referred to as "the branch of admiralty". The Iranian Army Organization According to its conscription. It begins at the age of 21 and lasts 25 years. The active service period is two years. It is built on a provincial basis. It comprises nine mixed divisions, which are composed of all the troop classes, as well as five independent brigades, consisting of infantry and cavalry. There is also a heavy artillery division. The Air Force is tougher than a few hundred machines. A gendarmerie is composed of seven regiments and fifteen battalions. The Offizierkorps counts 1,500 active and several thousand reserve officers. The military forces available at all times must be estimated at more than io0.o00 men, to which the reserve years are added. A small navy of cannonboats secures the harbours of the Persian Gulf. 1 a. Riza Shah, The Emperor of Iran is a quite sober man. The world comes with its persistent tendency to continue to play a thousand and a night in Persia, in his empire little at their expense. When he set himself up in the spring of 1926, the most important prop of the zealous foreign journalists' reports was the magnificent, traditional peacock throne, which had already been written in advance. Riza Shah, however, did not use it at all and later sold the golden Chaiselongue, which had been decorated with precious stones, to finance a railway construction with the money. More to his heart are legends with the opposite tendency, he sleeps as once on a hard barracks bed in the midst of his soldiers and officers. But since his people think that a real emperor belongs to some splendor and splendour, he has at least officially moved into the old imperial palace and shows himself on horseback at festive parades. Also the other way to achieve recognition by force, he dominates excellently in contrast to his weak predecessors. In the case of apostate, distant tribes of his country, he is a couplenal to only in his reign - 3 -