Word: iranian
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...fire and the fury dramatized the dimensions of a new American tragedy--the inability of the U.S. to extricate 53 American hostages held by Iranian militants. In a startlingly bold but tragic gamble, President Jimmy Carter had ordered a courageous, specially trained team of American military commandos to try to pluck the hostages out of the heavily guarded U.S. embassy in Tehran. The supersecret operation failed dismally...
...Mullah Wrestlemania The arrival of American wrestlers in Tehran has Iranian conservatives ready to rumble...
...Following moderate Iranian president Mohammad Khatami?s call last year for increased contact between the nations, journalists were eager to cast the wrestlers? visit as a sweatier equivalent of the ?ping-pong diplomacy? between the U.S. and China in the early '70s. The team certainly appears to have been well prepared for its diplomatic mission: Said one member, Melvin Douglas of Arizona, ?I know not to walk on carpets with your shoes, I know not to look at the women. Basically, I won't do nothing wrong...
Your article on moves by Iranian President Mohammed Khatami to improve relations with the U.S. [WORLD, Jan. 19] was typical of the U.S.'s massive superiority complex. The plan by the U.S. to slap sanctions on European companies that trade with Iran is abhorrent. What right has America to intervene in the new liberalization of Middle Eastern trade? Is the U.S. trying to upset the promising progress being made by Khatami? The U.S. has done a lot for nations having difficulty moving into an era of openness and democracy, but it is time for the U.S. to drop...
Laudable as Khatami's comments about freedom are, he should perhaps start the process of reform by making his true beliefs known to the Iranian people at large rather than airing them in the Western press, access to which is denied the majority of his nation's population. Of course, such freedom of speech may lead to Khatami's being deposed, but that is the "risky and rough" path to which he refers in his essay in TIME and the one upon which he must now be prepared to embark. TIM PURCELL Wing, England...