Word: pahlavis
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...held assets. Said an aide to Secretary of State Edmund Muskie: "That's really where it's hung. They are serious about it. But they have to understand that we are at the limit of our authority." Washington has long promised to help locate the Pahlavi assets in the U.S. and block their expatriation, but has no power to hand them over to Tehran unless Tehran can establish rightful ownership in U.S. courts...
...Iranians have demanded a U.S. promise of nonintervention in Iranian affairs, the freeing of more than eight billion dollars in assets frozen by the Carter administration, cancellation of all American claims against Iran and return of the wealth of the late Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi...
...From his home in exile in Egypt, Reza Pahlavi, the elder son of the late Shah, last week marked his 20th birthday by proclaiming himself Shah of Iran and calling on his countrymen to join forces in ending the "nightmare" wrought by the Iraqi invasion and the revolution that ousted his father from the Peacock Throne...
...holdings. However, the U.S. would have no authority to turn them over to Tehran unless litigation proved they had been illegally acquired by the Shah and his relatives. About all the Administration could do to satisfy this condition would be to assist the Iranians in tracking down the Pahlavi fortune and pursuing it through the U.S. courts...
...land at Mehrabad: they thought it was an Iraqi plane. Opposition parties like the left-wing Socialist People's Mujahidin and the Marxist People's Fedayan were captured by the patriotic fever and backed the war effort of President Abolhassan Banisadr's government. Even Reza Pahlavi, 19, the Shah's oldest son, who is studying at the American University in Cairo, volunteered his services from abroad as a fighter pilot...