Word: iranian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Oddly enough, Carter's treatment of the Iranian hostage crisis, though substantial, is not as complete or as interesting as Jordan's. One can only speculate that, here too, the episode proved so embarrassing and politically fatal that he prefers to forget about it. Instead, he devotes a small chapter to defending Office of Management and Budget head Bert Lance, a personal friend whom he describes as "a good country banker." Lance had been forced to resign his post because of financial improprieties--one wonders why Carter feels compelled to devote so much space to clearing a friend's name...
...help defend the gulf, the U.S. has organized the Rapid Deployment Joint Task Force (R.D.F.). Established in 1980 after the Iranian revolution and the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, the R.D.F. draws on units from the Army, Air Force, Navy and Marines. Its mandate is "to ensure the unimpeded flow of oil" and "to deter aggression from outside [Southwest Asia and the gulf] and to assist nations in the region in resisting aggression." The R.D.F. has headquarters at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa and until now has inhabited a kind of bureaucratic limbo, falling between the European and Pacific commands...
...about their security. They are still recovering from the shock of an abortive coup d'état last December. It was staged by dissident Shi'ites, members of a Muslim sect that dominates Iran and constitutes a majority in Bahrain. The nation is an obvious target for Iranian attempts to export the Ayatullah Khomeini's Islamic revolution. One of the masterminds of the December "incident," as it is called in Bahrain, was Hadi Modaresi, a mullah who had lived in Bahrain during the rule of the Shah and fomented trouble among the Shi'ites there. After...
...total of $7.977 billion of Iranian money [the $5.5 billion held overseas by the twelve U.S. banks plus $2.4 billion in frozen Federal Reserve accounts] would have to be in the Bank of England and ready to be transferred from our account there to the Algerian account, the last step before the hostages can be released. I tell Miller to be sure the Bank of England is ready with its certification of deposit, so we will have no further delay after the funds are in London...
...from Christopher: "Takeoff is not imminent, but I can state for certain that it will be before noon. Iran asks Algeria not to announce departure until after the planes clear Iranian airspace...