Word: iranian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...aware that 99 per cent of the 60,000 Iranian students in the U.S. are the children of plumbers, mechanics, taxi drivers, masons, gardeners? They are not here on scholarship but on their fathers' income. If it is true that the Shah had squeezed the wealth out of the Iranian people for the last 37 years, how could these lower class people be so prosperous as to afford to send their children to study abroad, even visiting them every now and then and returning home with products from U.S. department stores? Does Rev. Kimball know that every Iranian student...
...this time he returned to Teheran and never stopped his bitter criticism of the Shah, holding meetings every week at his home or the home of his co-ideologist. Strangely enough, he had to leave for Paris after the Revolution. Did Rev. Kimball meet the most revered and loved Iranian lawyer who was staying in the U.S. for the past 15 years directing the anti-Shah movement, who went to Iran immediately after the Revolution but had to leave for Paris soon after that. Does Rev. Kimball remember that even the Ayatollah Khomeini, number one enemy of the Shah...
...divisions in Afghanistan raised ominous questions about Moscow's strategic intentions. Two of the mechanized divisions were positioned in western Afghanistan, and more troops were on their way there. In addition, two to three other divisions still in the U.S.S.R. were said to have moved westward toward the Iranian border. To some intelligence analysts in Kabul, the pattern pointed to the possibility of a strike into Iran if the Khomeini regime were to disintegrate...
...Soviets are sitting pretty," concurred a South Asian expert. "Coming down from the north and across from Afghanistan, they would have the eastern half of Iran before the U.S. could react. There is no force that could stop them. The only impediment the Soviets would face is one wretched Iranian infantry division in Mashad...
...result of its refusal to release the 50 U.S. hostages who have been held captive in the Tehran embassy since Nov. 4. Reporting to the Security Council on his mission to Iran, United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim held out little hope for a speedy resolution, since Iranian authorities continued to demand the extradition of the Shah and the return of his assets...