Word: assad
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...home and abroad, Assad faces some severe tests...
Then comes the question of our other neighbors. Even now I would like to invite President Assad, King Hussein and President Sarkis to join the peace process. I can go to Damascus and to the capital of Jordan and the capital of Lebanon, or they can come to Jerusalem or we may meet at a neutral spot and let us try hard to bring peace. But if the answer is negative, and so far it has been, we must be patient. If we improve relations between Egypt and Israel, this may serve as a living example for our other neighbors...
...spokesman commended the Khomeini regime for acting quickly to free Ambassador Sullivan and the others and added that Assad Homayoun, the head of the Iranian embassy in Tehran, telephoned assurances from the Khomeini government that the army would protect the Americans...
Shortly after Zahedi left Washington to escort the Shah's children to their parents' refuge in Morocco, the acting deputy of the mission, Assad Homayoun, received instructions from his Foreign Min istry in Tehran: remove all por traits of the Shah from the premises. Homayoun duly complied...
...merger with Syria is consummated, Iraq's movement toward moderation is likely to accelerate. Until now, Iraq has been one of the most adamant opponents of negotiations between the Arabs and the Israelis. But when Bakr and Syrian President Hafez Assad met in Baghdad last October, they agreed to base their foreign policy toward Israel on two demands: a return of all Arab lands occupied by the Israelis since the 1967 war, and the creation of a Palestinian state. Though neither Bakr nor Assad believes that the Israelis are prepared to make such concessions, it is significant that...