Word: iranian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...title of Man of the Year for that diabolical Iranian Rasputin is insane...
...advisers" and enormous quantities of weapons to Ethiopia three years later. During the final months of the Shah's reign in Iran, moreover, Persian-language broadcasts beamed at Iran from inside the U.S.S.R. were inflaming an already tense situation by charging, among other things, that "the dangers facing the Iranian people are coming" from...
Waldheim, his legendary diplomatic poise badly shaken, hugged the child for a few moments while the crippled demonstrators and Waldheim's armed Iranian bodyguards wept. Then he promised emotionally that he would press for a U.N. investigation of atrocities committed under the Shah. Vowed Waldheim: "I shall bring this message of suffering before the United Nations, before the world community. We will inquire into the violation of human rights by the previous regime. We shall certainly do whatever we can to ensure that this mutilation of human beings will never take place again...
...Cambridge woman, taking an opposite view, said the U.S. should have been more aggressive with the Soviets all along. In her view, the Afghanistan and Iranian situations are directly related, because, she said, the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini is a Soviet plant. She explained she heard on a radio talk show the "real" Khomeini has nine fingers, but the Khomeini now in Iran...
...spokesman for the student militants said 100 of the estimated 500 people occupying the embassy had gone to see the Iranian leader, but another later denied the group was that large...