Word: buts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That Europeans have qualms about further action against Iran was made very clear to Vance. Britain fears that additional economic retaliation might cause its embassy in Tehran to be attacked next. The British government has considered many options on the crisis, said a high official, but "you wind up rejecting...
Quite the contrary, say skeptical U.S. Government economists and Western experts in Tehran. Iran has found more than enough alternative sources of food; for example, the Australian government supports the U.S. on the hostages but has continued its exports of meat and wheat to Iran, which this year will total...
Meanwhile, the Shah's sudden departure from Lackland Air Force Base near San Antonio raised hopes that the hostage situation might now be resolved. Earlier in the week, that seemed a remote possibility. The Shah's health had taken a turn for the worse. Aides reported to Washington...
The Fedayan and Mujahedin are the more dynamic groups with a degree of support among the masses and in the armed services. The most persistent and ferocious of the Shah's opponents, they were brutally suppressed and suffered heavy losses. But they continued to provoke bloody clashes with SAVAK...
The Mujahedin is the more moderate of the two parties. It practices the same religion as Khomeini, but it differs in wanting to establish a classless society, or "pure Shi'ism." The party boycotted the referendum on the theocratic constitution, and it refused to surrender the arsenal it had...