Word: iranian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Thursday, however, the impression of substantial new progress could not be concealed. In Tehran, Iranian Prime Minister Muhammed Ali Raja'i looked drawn and uneasy as he and Nabavi walked into an austere two-story house in Jamaran, a village north of Tehran, presumably to advise Khomeini of the parliament's action, the latest offers from Algeria and a proposed Iranian response. Raja'i emerged much more relaxed and cheerful. He had received the Ayatullah's consent to send a positive reply. Not only were the negotiations now rushing toward a likely conclusion, but the worried...
...take long for the Algerians to relay the Iranian response to Christopher. Even as he began studying it, a copy of the four-page text was rushed by coded radio communication to the computer printer near Secretary Muskie's office on the State Department's seventh floor. Muskie, however, had just gone off to make a luncheon speech to the World Affairs Council. On his return, he read the message slowly, picked up a telephone to summarize the cable first to the President and then to National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski. With that, Muskie returned calmly to another...
...Administration's initial public response was equally low-key. The Iranian reply was "substantive," said State's Trattner. "It warrants close and intensive study. We cannot yet predict whether it will enable the parties to resolve their remaining differences." In fact, the reply was more constructive-at least on its face-than U.S. diplomats had expected. Observed a senior State Department official: "The response included provisions that are advantageous. They offered prescriptions for dealing with the banks that are improvements over our positions...
...Iranians had by now dropped their previous demand that specific sums be set aside as a guarantee against failure by Tehran to locate and recover the assets of the Shah. Tehran's response also raised no major objections to U.S. estimates of the amount of Iranian funds that had been frozen by Carter and that should be made available to Iran once the hostages were released. The reply, moreover, showed a willingness to work with American banks in resolving differences over Iran's past loans. The text suggested that "past and future loan installments" could be deducted from...
There were some refinements of Iran's cash demands, however, in the message. It asked for immediate transfer to a trusted third party of roughly $2.2 billion in Iranian gold and securities held by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York. The gold weighs nearly 60 tons. Iran also wanted the return of the estimated $4.8 billion in Iranian funds that American banks hold in their branches in Europe. When these funds were frozen, the U.S. banks seized about $1.8 billion worth of "setoffs" against past Iranian loans-an action that was technically illegal under international currency laws...