Word: readmit
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Meanwhile, the Shah, recuperating in Panama (Mexico had refused to readmit him), was beyond U.S. jurisdiction. In Paris, a nephew of the Shah was assassinated on orders of Ayatullah Sadegh Khalkhali, the revolution's hanging judge. In Iran and in the U.S., people were digging in for a long haul...
Cochran's advantage soon may not matter. Iran's newly elected President Abolhassan Banisadr has expressed his willingness to readmit American journalists. He also made an interesting, though perhaps unintended admission: "Their presence is better here even if they tell lies than if they write something about Iran from abroad or if they write nothing...