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...pictures had eerie and disturbing echoes: men in blindfolds squatting on the floor looking disoriented, then being forced to march over rocky ground. These were not images of Abu Ghraib, but videos of British servicemen, part of a naval training team, arrested by Iranian forces after straying into Iranian waters during a storm. The sailors quickly apologized on TV, and after four tense days they were released as moderates in Tehran apparently prevailed in an internal power struggle. But hard-liners in the Revolutionary Guards had seemed eager to goad London, suggesting the men were special forces. According to Sadegh...
...years were overshadowed by scandal. He had become committed to finding a way to free American hostages held in Lebanon. In 1985 his National Security Adviser, Robert (Bud) McFarlane, oversaw a scheme in which Israel, as a stand-in for the U.S., would provide TOW antitank missiles to an Iranian arms dealer in exchange for help in obtaining the release of hostages. Did Reagan, who had repeatedly declared he would make no deals with Iran or terrorists, agree to this one? McFarlane later testified that he did. Reagan said he couldn't remember. After a shipment of missiles...
Norway native P. Oktor Skjaervo, the Aga Khan professor of Iranian, recently translated Zoroastrian texts drawn from the nearly 4,000 year-old Iranian culture into Norwegian. These appeared in the Norwegian Book Clubs last January...
...immensely fascinating and challenging. There was enormous breadth to the things that you had to know because it ranged from doing the guarantees of New York City debt, the bailout of Chrysler, opening up formal relations with China, the Banking Act of 1978, and the freeze of Iranian assets,” Mundheim says...
...sent a Treasury team to London to negotiate the destination of the frozen Iranian government assets, and Carswell came to Mundheim to head up the team...