Word: iranian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Iranian Photographer Kaveh Golestan, who has risked his life and freedom to cover Iran's revolution for TIME, received the O.P.C.'s Robert Capa Gold Medal. The award for best photo reporting from abroad went to David Burnett for pictures taken mostly on assignment for TIME. Burnett was also named Magazine Photographer of the Year in the University of Missouri/National Press Photographers Association competition and won the organizations' newsmagazine first prize for his photo of a Cambodian refugee mother and child. (The same photo was chosen Press Photo of the Year in the 23rd World Press Photo Contest...
...been done very suddenly, it would have been very hard for them to reorient their economy without enormous disruption. And maybe the threat of our doing that would have got the hostages released. Today we have to assess the situation in terms of what alternative sources the Iranian authorities have already developed, basically the Soviet Union. In short what would the real effect of a blockade be? Also, what would be its impact on other gulf states? What is the relationship of the Afghan to the Iranian crisis? Therefore, I think we have to pursue a more patient course than...
...Europe and the Middle East. But this is not enough. We need preventive diplomacy that can keep the Soviets from being able to exploit the weaknesses in Western positions. Decisive progress on the Palestinian issue, beyond the ambiguous Camp David formula, is indispensable in this respect. So is an Iranian policy that solves the hostage crisis without destroying the chances of cooperation between the U.S. and Iran once Iran's revolution moves, as it inevitably must, from fervor and ferment to reconstruction and management. The third effort should aim at achieving a détente without illusions. We need a framework...
While the American dead were being honored in Florida, more than 7,000 miles away in Tehran something most indecent was happening to their corpses, Iranian authorities tore open the plastic bags that contained the charred remains, poked at them with knives and held up pieces for government television crews. 'This is proof of Carter's crime," ranted .he Ayatullah Sadegh Khalkhali, formerly Tehran's chief Islamic judge. Then, switching hypocritically to mournful tones, he added: "My heart aches for the families of these victims...
Japan was not the only customer unwilling to pay the exorbitantly high prices. In recent weeks British Petroleum and Shell have been stalling on new Iranian contracts while letting markets show that the asking price was too high. Said one IEA official: "This summer people would probably have done without Iranian crude anyway. The Iranians themselves have created their problems by trying to charge too much...