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From its earliest beginnings, the U.S. has been a haven for refugees. But never has the country paid a higher price for this tradition than it has for allowing in the deposed Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi for treatment of his gallstones and cancer. For nearly a month, 50 Americans have been held hostage in Tehran under threat of execution by the revolutionary regime of the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, who demands the Shah's return...
...Iran," Khomeini declared. "It is a struggle between Islam and the infidels." He repeatedly threatened that the 49 American hostages held in the captured U.S. embassy in Tehran would be tried as spies, and possibly executed, if the U.S. does not send back the deposed Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi from the hospital in New York City...
Followers of the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini have been holding hostages at the embassy since November 4. They are demanding the extradition of the deposed Shah Reza Pahlavi, currently receiving medical treatment in New York...
Iranian properties in the U.S. are even more meager. The most conspicuous among them is the 36-story skyscraper on Manhattan's Fifth Avenue at 52nd Street. It is owned by the tax-exempt Pahlavi Foundation, created by the Shah but now controlled by the Ayatullah's supporters. The Iranians also own some U.S. military spare parts stored in a warehouse at New Jersey's McGuire Air Force Base and awaiting shipment. But, says David Bauer, an economist for the Conference Board, a New York-based research group, "I can't think of a single Iranian...
...willing, reports of the deposed shah's affliction with cancer are true.'' So said Iran's Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, with his customary generosity to a fallen foe. The reports were indeed correct. Last week Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, 60, flew from his lavish, well-guarded home in exile at Cuernavaca, Mexico, to New York City's LaGuardia Airport on a chartered jet that airline officials had first been told would only be carrying a ''valuable shipment'' from the Bank of Mexico. Weak and frail-looking, the Shah shuffled into a limousine...