Word: iranian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When the night was young, the King contemplated plunder At dawn, his body, head and crown were all asunder. -Iranian poem describing the assassination of Nader Shah, an 18th century king...
...Ayatullah Mohammed Beheshti was not a king, but he was the emerging strongman of Iranian politics. He was the nation's Chief Justice, the secretary-general of the ruling Islamic Republican Party and the chief strategist of the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini's theocratic state. At 52, he was the chief hope of continuity for the Islamic revolution, whose terrifying politics have split Iran into bitter and contending factions...
Even as Tehran's revolutionary leaders fulminated against the Great Satan last week, they got some good news from Washington: the U.S. Supreme Court unanimously upheld Jimmy Carter's right to terminate American suits against Iran and to nullify attachments against Iranian assets, as part of the controversial deal that won freedom for the 52 hostages...
...thus cleared for the release of $2.3 billion in Iranian assets still held in U.S. banks-the last of the estimated $12 billion that Carter had frozen during the hostage crisis. Of the newly freed assets, $1.3 billion will now return to Iran. The remaining $1 billion will go into a special fund to cover awards by an arbitration tribunal meeting at The Hague. (Iran is pledged to replenish this fund so as to keep a minimum balance of $500 million.) It is to this body that U.S. companies must now submit their claims against Iran. The tribunal, comprising three...
...Lady Snow's in Hollywood. Artifacts include gleaming jade cutting stones, gold razor blades to chop the coke crystals and tiny brown bottles for sniffing (an antique gold Tiffany snuff bottle capable of holding two grams sold for $28,000 in Beverly Hills last year to an Iranian). Items like silver and gold sniffing spoons are flaunted on chains around the users' necks. The process of spreading the coke on a table in "lines" for sniffing is as elaborate and careful as a Japanese tea ceremony-an affectation hilariously burlesqued in the 1977 film Annie Hall when Woody...