Word: ifs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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If Khomeini ordered the release of the hostages and the occupiers complied, he says, the leftist demonstrators outside "would jump over the wall, exterminate the hostages and probably the students as well."
Beneath Khomeini, the Iranian government is a babble of conflicting voices, some sounding bloodthirsty, others somewhat conciliatory. Acting Foreign Minister Abol Hassan Banisadr, who seems torn between two factions, managed to echo both themes at once last week. "If the U.S. Government intervenes militarily against Iran, all Iranians will fight...
public opinion around the country last week found Americans almost unanimously against handing over the Shah to Khomeini. "We'd be groveling if we caved in now," says Boston Lawyer-Author George V. Higgins. But some consider that it was a major blunder to admit the Shah in the first...
Louis, has a simple solution for dealing with the Iranians: "We ought to shoot the sons of bitches." Says Bob Brubaker, a wheat farmer in western Kansas: "I'm beginning to think that we should either seize their oilfields or destroy them if we can." Frank McVey, a New York...
Said he: "The Administration can considerably improve prospects for a solution by: 1) acknowledging the presence of evidence sufficient to warrant an investigation into criminal charges brought against the deposed Shah; 2) expressing its willingness to extradite the ex-dictator out of respect for the Iranian people's quest for...