Word: iranian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...believed to include Terry Anderson, the chief Middle East correspondent for the Associated Press, and Thomas Sutherland, a dean at the American University of Beirut, defiantly warned that its captives would be killed if the U.S. attacked. Sheik Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, the spiritual leader of Hizballah, the pro-Iranian Party of God movement, personally challenged the Sixth Fleet. "What can they do, destroy Beirut?" he demanded. "They cannot do that. The Americans are welcome . . . If I am on their hit list, then that is an honor...
Along with the fate of Terry Waite and the plight of the hostages in Lebanon, the U.S. was concerned last week about the detention of Wall Street Journal Correspondent Gerald Seib in Tehran. Seib was one of more than 100 foreign journalists invited by the Iranian government to visit the country and, not incidentally, to report on Iran's recent progress in the gulf war. Toward the end of a five-day visit, he was suddenly arrested and accused of being "a spy for the Zionist regime." For several days it appeared that he would be brought to trial...
They said the Iranian was in an ambulance accompanying the two trucks into the Bourj el-Barajneh refugee camp, which has been under siege by the Shiite Moslem militia Amal for 11 weeks...
...Iranian delegate was hit in the head and died later," they said. The identity of the Iranian was not immediately available...
...Iranian Embassy in Beirut could not immediately be reached for comment...