Word: iranian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Iranian leadership was clearly not impressed. At week's end Foreign Minister Sadegh Ghotbzadeh instead complained about persistent reports that Soviet troops were massing behind the Iranian border. If that proved to be true, he said, Iran would "protest fiercely...
Most of America's allies had doubts that the proposed embargo would end the eleven-week-old hostage crisis. They also wondered if the U.S. was wise to go ahead with it in the face of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Iranian Foreign Minister Sadegh Ghotbzadeh boasted that "these kinds of pressures don't deter us at all," and sternly advised other nations to stay out of Washington's "political games." Oil Minister Ali Akbar Moinfar announced that Iran would immediately cut off oil shipments "to any country that joins the U.S. economic boycott against Iran." That...
...raided and ransacked the headquarters of the Muslim People's Republic Party, which professes loyalty to Ayatullah Seyed Kazem Sharietmadari. Four people were killed in the predawn assault; eleven dissidents were captured and executed by a firing squad after a summary trial. According to reports from Kuwait, several Iranian army officers were secretly executed for plotting a military coup against Khomeini's theocratic regime...
Last month an exhibition of this work opened at the National Gallery in Washington (it moves to the Fogg Museum in Cambridge, Mass., in late March). There seems to be no reason to doubt the organizers' claim that it is "probably the greatest assemblage of 16th century Iranian painting seen together in 400 years." Under the curatorial hand of Art Historian Stuart Gary Welch, several works have been brought together. The centerpiece is the Houghton Shahnama, or Book of Kings, in itself a miniature museum of the work of the greatest court artists of Tabriz, those who were assembled...
Word of the expulsion, which affected the remaining 86 American journalists in the estimated 300-member foreign press corps in Tehran, came early last week from Abol Ghassam Sadegh, Iran director general for the foreign press in the Ministry of National Guidance. He also forbade Iranian employees of U.S. news organizations to file dispatches, and warned that European newsmen too could be expelled for any "biased" reporting. The Americans, said Sadegh, "were out of touch with reality and "unfair to Iran and its revolution." He speculated that their departure might actually cool the hostage crisis by shifting press attention elsewhere...