Word: azizi
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...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 they were going home, said Azizi, "they did not believe it. They moved about like sleepwalkers...