Word: khomeini
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...over a two-hour lunch of foie gras and braised veal. "Shortly after your hostages were taken in Tehran in 1979," he recalls, "the Americans asked my advice. I told them, 'When dealing with rug merchants, you need something to trade.' " The count's modest proposal: kidnap the Ayatullah Khomeini and exchange him for the 53 Americans. "After weeks of reconnaissance, my people came up with a detailed plan to land a helicopter near Khomeini's residence, neutralize his guards and whisk him away. The CIA loved the idea, but Jimmy Carter nixed it. He said, 'We just...
...sweltering August afternoon in 1991, three dark-haired men approached an ivy-covered villa in the Paris suburb of Suresnes. It was the home of Shahpour Bakhtiar, 76, exiled former Prime Minister of Iran and a leader of the anti- Khomeini opposition. Since fleeing Tehran in 1979, Bakhtiar had been one of the most closely guarded men in France, watched over by paramilitary police 24 hours...
...links. Combing through thousands of visa applications, French authorities found forms submitted by Vakili and Azadi. Their applications had been endorsed by a French electronics company called Syfax. Officials of the company said they had intervened at the request of Iranian businessman Massoud Hendi, a nephew of the Ayatullah Khomeini and a former Paris bureau chief for Iranian television...
Saturday was not the only time last week that Clinton used the symbolic power of the presidency to defend free speech. Earlier, Clinton met with author Salman Rushdie, whose 1989 book The Satanic Verses earned him a death sentence from Iranian Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. President Bush had shunned such meetings, with his press secretary derisively dismissing Rushdie as just another "author promoting his book...
...cover caused a sensation, including innumerable phone protests and a then record 3,430 letters to the editor. That controversy was far overshadowed in 1979 by the selection of the Ayatullah Khomeini as Man of the Year, which drew 14,180 protests...