Word: iranian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although the P.L.O. may profit from the perception that it rejects Abu Nidal's movement, terrorism's tentacles are spreading. Alliances are said to be forming in Lebanon between followers of the F.R.C. and members of the pro- Iranian Shi'ite Hizballah. "I spend more time worrying about the fractionalization of terrorism than I do about the disintegration of ((Abu Nidal's)) organization," says a Western diplomat in Cairo. "Smaller groups are harder to find...
Earlier, Albert Hakim, who helped divert millions of dollars in U.S. Government profits from Iranian arms sales into secret Swiss accounts and siphoned some to the contras, was permitted to cop a plea. He admitted being guilty of a mere misdemeanor: helping to buy a security fence for Oliver North's suburban Washington home. In return, felony charges against him were dropped...
...however, the families no longer discount any theory. "I believe ((the CIA scenario)) is more than possible," says Giebler. She is not alone in her suspicion, nor in her anger about the offer by the Bush Administration to compensate the families of victims killed in the downing of an Iranian passenger jet by the U.S.S. Vincennes in July 1988. Some security analysts conclude that Iran ordered the bombing of Flight 103 to avenge the Iranian Airbus disaster. The families do not disagree. Jeannine Boulanger, whose 21-year-old daughter Nicole was killed over Lockerbie, remembers vividly the day the Iranian...
Iran has several times linked any effort on behalf of the hostages to the release of Iranian assets. It calculates those to be worth far more than the amount unfrozen last week, including perhaps what it claims are $12 billion in weapons purchased from the U.S. but never delivered. So the Iranians' public response to the deal in the Hague was lukewarm. Perhaps leery of giving domestic hard-liners grounds to charge that the Islamic republic is negotiating with the Great Satan, Deputy Foreign Minister Mahmoud Vaezi described the deal as a decision made by the Hague tribunal...
...next "signal" from the U.S. may be an agreement to pay compensation to survivors of those killed in the Iran Air passenger plane shot down in July 1988 by the U.S.S. Vincennes. The U.S. has already begun paying families of non-Iranian passengers, but compensation to Iranians, who account for most of the 290 people aboard, has been held up by a lawsuit the Tehran government is pursuing against the U.S. in the International Court of Justice...