Word: iranians
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This constant friction makes Iranian society more open and is a necessary step for furthering democracy, said Yazdi...
...EXONERATION WITHOUT MUCH CONVICtion. The Senate Foreign Relations Committee's investigation of allegations that the Reagan campaign connived with Iranian authorities to delay the release of 52 American hostages during the 1980 election concluded that "the great weight of evidence is that there was no such deal." But the committee report did charge that the conduct of Reagan campaign chairman and later CIA Director William Casey verged "on the outer limits of propriety" when he secretly gathered intelligence on the delicate U.S.-Iranian hostage negotiations in 1980. The investigation, run on a shoestring budget, never did find such critical evidence...
...arms buildup, the likes of which has not been seen since Saddam Hussein stocked his arsenal in the days before the Gulf War. In recent months Teheran has been negotiating contracts with Russia, Ukraine and China for everything from tanks to missiles and high- performance jet fighters. Iranian dissidents and Western analysts are also concerned about help the Iranians may be getting from Chinese technicians in efforts to develop nuclear weapons. And like prewar Iraq, Iran is funding its weapons program with $20 billion in oil sales facilitated by Western companies...
...Hizballah, the pro-Iranian Shi'ite Muslims in Lebanon, have been firing rockets into Israel. Since you have disarmed other militias in Lebanon, why haven't you disarmed Hizballah...
...failed spectacularly in the end -- Bush himself admits it "was not successful" -- it had logic at the time. The original impetus was fear of the Ayatullah Khomeini's Iran. Even though Saddam had provoked the Iran-Iraq war in 1980, Washington began helping Iraq to stave off an Iranian victory. The Reagan Administration removed Baghdad from its list of terrorist countries, exchanged ambassadors, overlooked purchases of weapons from U.S. allies and secretly handed over intelligence about Iran's capabilities and intentions...