Word: iranian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Said Aga Khan Professor of Iranian Richard N.Frye: "Fleming and Handlin found [Brinkley's] worktoo journalistic...
...face of the opposition, Spence halted Brinkley's review, the sources said. "If Handlin and Fleming turn their thumbs down on someone, you can forget it; he's not going through," said Aga Khan Professor of Iranian Richard Frye, a History Department member...
...later years Paris became a home to exiles from North Africa, 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...
...year war between Iran and Iraq, the Soviet Union has been Iraq's chief arms supplier. Last week Soviet ships for the first time became Iranian targets. As it steamed up the Persian Gulf, the Soviet freighter Pyotr Yemtsov was seized by Iranian gunships. The vessel was searched and released after 36 hours, when its cargo proved to be construction materials for Kuwait rather than supplies for Iraq. A second Soviet ship, the Tutov, was stopped briefly in the gulf and then allowed to continue...
Still, Western experts were surprised by the Iranian ship seizures, which came as relations between Tehran and Moscow seemed to be improving. When Iran resumed natural-gas sales to the Soviet Union two weeks ago, the move was seen as a triumph for Iranian diplomacy...