Word: iranian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...asked them to do. They joined in condemnations of the militants, acted as secret mediators with Tehran and voted in the U.N. Security Council for sanctions against Iran. Everyone was also in step when Washington decided to soften its policy toward Iran in the hopes of bolstering relatively moderate Iranian leaders like President Abolhassan Banisadr...
Sharp U.S. dismay with the allies began to mount when Washington reluctantly concluded that tough measures were becoming necessary because the Iranian moderates either would not or could not secure the release of the American hostages. Typical of the disheartening news from Iran was the report the White House received last week that the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini was not planning to release the hostages until, after the U.S. elections in November. In a note at the end of March, Carter requested the allies to make public statements and use their diplomats in Tehran to pressure the Iranians. Says a White...
...legal aspects of a potential boycott of Iran. One Community study argues that an economic boycott, in concert with the U.S. and Japan, could impose much more damage on Iran than that country could inflict in retaliation by cutting off oil shipments. Reason: in the wake of the Iranian crisis, the allies have gradually been reducing their purchases of oil from Tehran, but Iranian industry still needs West European goods to keep going. E.C. members now get only 3% of their oil from Iran, and Japan...
...sure, the mission was badly conceived and badly executed, even on a technical military level. If the helicopter had landed successfully in the desert, what would the soldiers have done in confronting a sprawling embassy compound in which the hostages are widely dispersed, and guarded by 150 armed Iranian militants? Harold Brown will not tell; we can only speculate that the plan involved a considerable amount of bloodshed, and that the safe return of the hostages was no more than tentative. Moreover, the operation can only further confuse our European allies, who just recently agreed to aid an American posture...
...their religious brethren in Iran. Moreover, the Baghdad regime is Baathist, and the Baath Party, both in Iraq and Syria, favors secularism, social reconstruction and economic development. To make matters worse, Iran has reportedly been inciting the Kurds in northern Iraq to rebel against Baghdad. For their part, the Iranians suspect that the current border troubles are being aggravated by Iranian exile groups, including some rebels loyal to the Shah's last Prime Minister, Shahpour Bakhtiar, who fled Iran last year and is now living in France...