Word: nabavi
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...parliament to defend the government's handling of the negotiations. Iran's problems, he asserted, resulted from its revolutionary upheavals and not from the hostage crisis. No other regime, he said, "could have obtained from the United States more than this government has." Chief Hostage Negotiator Behzad Nabavi later conceded that Tehran got much less than the $24 billion it had originally demanded, but added somewhat lamely: "We should avoid looking at the issue through a trader's eyes. Our political gains were far greater...
Nearly four hours later, Behzad Nabavi, Iran's chief hostage negotiator, said in Tehran that an agreement had substantially been reached. The Algerians were so certain that the ordeal was near an end that they dispatched a planeload of Algerian journalists to Tehran to cover and film the hostages' release...
...there was evidence of further progress. At 7:17, Christopher met with Algerian Foreign Minister Mohamed Seddik Benyahia and signed two declarations that would set up a complex procedure for the return of Iran's frozen assets upon release of the hostages. At the same moment in Tehran, Nabavi was signing his copy of the declarations. "At last I can smile again," beamed Christopher after putting his name on the documents with a felt-tipped pen that he borrowed from Saunders as a sign of appreciation for his work on the accord...
...revolution?" So asked a senior Iranian politician as a debate began in Tehran-remarkably like the one in Washington-over whether the hostage deal was honorable, as claimed by the fundamentalist clergymen who negotiated it, or a sellout of the national interest. Similar questions were pointedly put to Behzad Nabavi, Iran's chief hostage negotiator, when he spelled out the terms of the agreement on Tehran radio. An Iranian phoned to ask him: If the hostages were spies, why were they not tried? If they were not spies, why were they arrested in the first place? Nabavi dodged...
...accomplish, the U.S. could in effect simply loan itself the equivalent cash and then sell the securities later. All of the initial cash transfers were meant to show that the U.S. was acting in good faith-especially in view of the arbitrary deadline set by Iran's Nabavi, who mysteriously threatened to break off the whole deal if the Americans failed to take some concrete action by the end of Friday's business day. State Department officials viewed this as mostly a bluff, but could not ignore it entirely...