Word: pro-iranian
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...facility with which the hostages succeed in re-entering normal life will depend in large part on the tolerance and understanding they receive from their families and from the American public. The unthinking could all too easily confront them with two opposed dangers: either a hostile reaction to possible pro-Iranian utterances or excessive public adulation. Warns Psychology Professor Murray S. Miron of Syracuse University: "The more we lionize the returning hostages, the more inconsistent their attitude could be about themselves." Hubbard agrees that two much notoriety could aggravate their psychological problems. "These folks need privacy and gentleness...
...diplomats were rather more cautious than Carter's entourage in responding to what State Department Spokesman John Trattner called the "delicious shudder of rumors." Privately, some State Department veterans were dismayed that a pro-Iranian policy was being concocted on the hustings for what might in part be domestic political reasons. One cause for diplomatic skepticism was Iran's crippling internal political dissensions, which had frustrated all past attempts to obtain the freedom of the hostages. Another was the lack of any reliable channel for the direct negotiations that would be necessary to seal an agreement...
...groups, he said, include some Black, pro-Palestinian and pro-Iranian organizations...