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Dates: during 1970-1979
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No matter where he went, the Shah would still be at the center of the storm between the U.S. and Iran over the hostages in the captured U.S. embassy. That storm grew more menacing at week's end. First, Iranian militants produced what they declared was "proof of spying by...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Storm over the Shah | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

Still, no matter how intransigent Ghotbzadeh's rhetoric, his problem is the same one faced by Banisadr: the great gulf between Khomeini's determination to get the Shah and Jimmy Carter's refusal to hand him over. Moreover, Ghotbzadeh's task is complicated by the absence now of almost any...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Storm over the Shah | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

The President sternly accused Iran of violating standards of human behavior and international law in holding the hostages and warned of "grave consequences" if any are harmed. He vowed that the U.S. "will never yield to blackmail or international terrorism." Said he: "There are some conditions, prices, for the hostages...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Storm over the Shah | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

Thus the operative phrase in Carter's press conference was his vow to pursue a "peaceful solution." Accordingly, the U.S. filed suit against Iran in the International Court of Justice at The Hague, asking that Tehran be ordered to free the hostages and return the embassy to U.S. control. The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Storm over the Shah | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

The Shah's goal, however, was to make Iran a modern, Westernized state, and if that meant equal rights for women, so be it. He aimed to make Iran one of the world's five great powers, along with the U.S., the Soviet Union, France and Japan. The...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Nobody Influences Me! | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

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