Word: iranian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Gabor, whose first choice is not a candidate this time: "Nixon would know how to deal with the Iranian militants: get a million dollars baksheesh and pay them off. They steal a ring off your ringer and sell it back to you. Nixon understands...
Long before the Iraqis invaded Iran on Sept. 22, leading Iranian moderates, including President Abolhassan Banisadr, had warned that holding the hostages was pushing Iran into dangerous diplomatic isolation. Khomeini appeared ready to seek a compromise in September when he announced a scaled-down set of conditions for the release. Though the 80-year-old Islamic revolutionary gave the Majlis final responsibility over the American captives, he suggested the following terms for their freedom: 1) return of the late Shah's wealth, 2) cancellation of all U.S. claims against Iran, 3) release of Iranian assets frozen...
...diplomats were rather more cautious than Carter's entourage in responding to what State Department Spokesman John Trattner called the "delicious shudder of rumors." Privately, some State Department veterans were dismayed that a pro-Iranian policy was being concocted on the hustings for what might in part be domestic political reasons. One cause for diplomatic skepticism was Iran's crippling internal political dissensions, which had frustrated all past attempts to obtain the freedom of the hostages. Another was the lack of any reliable channel for the direct negotiations that would be necessary to seal an agreement...
...further obstacle to any prospective hostage deal lay in the snarl of legal complications that would make it impossible for Washington to deliver promptly on three of Khomeini's four conditions. Last Nov. 14, Carter issued an Executive order that froze more than $8 billion in Iranian assets held by U.S. banks. To unfreeze them now, explained the legal counsel for a major New York bank, would be "like putting an omelet back into the egg." Various corporations and individuals have liens against those assets to cover unpaid Iranian debts, and U.S. banks have "offset" a total of about...
...major refinery city of Abadan, ten miles to the south, had been totally surrounded by Iraqi forces seeking to starve out its last defenders. The Iraqis reportedly blew up sections of the main pipeline linking Abadan to Tehran, thereby depriving Iran of most of its domestic fuel supply. The Iranian Oil Ministry imposed a drastic rationing of home heating oil, following earlier restrictions on gasoline. The fall of Khorramshahr gave Iraqi President Saddam Hussein his first major victory. It also left the Iraqis in complete control of the Shatt al Arab and bolstered their military position as they continued assaults...