Word: reza
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...said he went to a lecture Chomsky was sponsoring for the Committee for Artistic and Intellectual Freedom in Iran. They had an Iranian poet to read his poetry--Reza Berahini... and a mob of Iranian students delayed the lecture for hours. There was a bomb threat. The Americans were scared. The Iranians said Berahini was a CIA agent. Yet he was an anti-Shah poet--he spent years in jail. So finally, Chomsky let one of the students speak at the podium, and the student waxes hot-faced and apologizes to the crowd for the disturbance. He says...
...States and 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...
...Iranian militants have held hostages in the embassy since November 4 hoping to exchange them for the former shah of Iran, the Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, currently receiving medical treatment 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...
Although nearly 87 per cent of the students felt Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, the Shah of Iran, should not be turned over to the Iranians. 35.5 per cent favored deportation of the exiled leader...