Word: bakhtiar
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...including the deposed Algerian President Ahmed ben Bella. Among the Iranian exiles who found refuge there in the 1970s was the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, who lived in the dreary suburb of Neauphle-le-Chateau. After his triumphal return to Iran, Khomeini chased the Shah's last Prime Minister, Shapour Bakhtiar, out of the country. Where did Bakhtiar go? To Paris, along with a deposed Iranian President, Abolhassan Banisadr...
...There the hijackers, by now mysteriously armed with revolvers and automatic pistols, declared that starting Thursday morning they would kill one French passenger every hour until the French government agreed to release five Islamic fanatics in prison since 1980 for the attempted assassination of former Iranian Prime Minister Shapour Bakhtiar in a Paris suburb...
...Shah's basic plan of asking one leader to assemble a coalition government seemed sound, but he was having a hard time convincing anyone of stature to serve. At the end of the year, Shahpour Bakhtiar, a Western-educated moderate, accepted the position of Prime Minister. The newly chosen leader demonstrated surprising strength and independence, immediately calling for the Shah to leave Iran, for the secret police to be disbanded, for those responsible for shooting demonstrators to be tried and for civilians to be in charge of Iran's foreign affairs...
...schedule and only after a stable successor government had been established. Sullivan, however, was recommending that we oppose the plans of the Shah, insist on his immediate departure and try to form some kind of friendship or alliance with Khomeini. I rejected this recommendation because the Shah, Bakhtiar and the Iranian military leaders needed consistent American support...
...chaos grows at home, Iranian exile organizations of all political stripes are staging protests and demonstrations around the world. The spectrum of the organizations runs from monarchists like the Azadegan group, to centrists who support onetime Iranian Prime Minister Shahpour Bakhtiar (currently in exile in France), to a branch of the Marxist-Leninist Fedayan-e Khalq guerrilla organization. Their common aim: to build international opposition to Khomeini...