Word: iranian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first of those horrors has been fully documented--the 444 days of pain, suffering, and deprivation that the embassy personnel suffered at the hands of their Iranian captors. But the second scandal has not been so completely reported in recent weeks--it is the 25 years of pain, suffering and deprivation that the Iranian people spent under the late shah. And it, as much as the hostages' tales, should be a lesson for our country...
...that the actions of the Iranian militants are understandable is not to excuse them; excusing inhumanity is at all times and in all places hypocritical. But to recognize our own inhumanity is not unpatriotic; instead it is a sensible first step towards improving our conduct and preventing a repetition of the Iranian debacle. For a generation Iranians lived in fear, oppressed by a tyrant placed in power by our Central Intelligence Agency and maintained by our largesse. It is not hard to understand why Iranians hate the United States. It is not hard to understand why they lined the streets...
...Another $4 billion will be transferred over the next six to nine months into an account with the Bank of England. This money is made up of the Iranian bank deposits and other privately held assets...
...banks, and includes $130 million that will be used to resolve the dispute over interest payments between Iran and the banks. The $4 billion claims account is intended to settle some of the 300 legal cases pending against Iran. Finally, and only after the hostages had flown out of Iranian air space, the Central Bank of Algeria transferred $2.8 billion directly to Iran. That was the total amount that the Iranians immediately got out of the deal; in six months or so, they may get at least a billion in funds left over from the claims account...
...swiveled from Washington to Algiers to West Germany to the home towns of dozens of hostages. When the hostages deplaned in Algiers, each network had an ex-hostage on hand in the studios. At NBC, seeing the hostages safe in Algiers, former Captive Lloyd Rollins began to speak of Iranian mistreatment of the Americans. One shocking revelation: some had been forced to play Russian roulette. At CBS, as former Hostage Richard Queen quietly named each returning American descending the airplane ramp, Dan Rather's voice broke with the emotion shared at that moment by millions of television viewers worldwide...