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Incredibly, Carter was still a captive of the ever unpredictable Iranians through a second virtually sleepless night. Before dawn, he knew that final agreement on the technicalities for release had been reached. The money had been deposited in the Algerian account at the Bank of England for transfer to the Iranians. At 8:06 a.m. his red phone rang. He was told by Deputy Secretary of State Warren Christopher that two Air Algerie Boeing 727 jetliners had been cleared for takeoff at Tehran's Mehrabad Airport. One was to carry the Americans, the other the Algerian doctors who had examined...
...abuse. Most, if not all, had been assembled by Iranian revolutionary guards at an undisclosed site in northern Tehran, probably the opulent mansion once owned by Hojabr Yazdani, a wealthy cattle breeder and industrialist who is now a fugitive from Khomeini's regime. They had been examined by the Algerian doctors, but the hostages had not been told that they were to be released. Ahmad Azizi, the Iranian government's second-ranking spokesman on the hostages, claimed later: "It would have been too painful for them if the negotiations had somehow broken down." Even when they were finally told that...
...negotiators and aides had flown to Algiers two weeks ago on an Air Force Boeing 707. They expected to stay in the U.S. embassy compound, on a hill overlooking the Bay of Algiers, for only a few days. Their mission was to be on hand to give Algerian diplomats, who were acting as intermediaries between the U.S. and Iran, a quick response to any questions raised in Tehran about the U.S. offer...
...London for several days. Consulting with them were officials of the Bank of England and the U.S. Federal Reserve System. Once they heard the outlines of the latest Iranian proposals, twelve of them flew immediately in a U.S. Air Force jet to Algiers to help advise Christopher and the Algerian intermediaries...
...plans for carrying the Americans out of Tehran were being completed. In Tehran, where there has long been considerable public hostility toward the hostages, officials planned to move the Americans to the airport during the night, when there would be little traffic or crowds along the highways. The Algerian airliner, perhaps escorted by U.S. fighter planes, would take them to Algiers, thus confirming the Americans' release and setting the exchange of money into motion. Two U.S. C-9A Nightingale hospital planes from Rhein-Main Air Base in West Germany would then pick up the ex-hostages in Algiers...