Word: shah
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...agreed to let the U.N. commission see all the embassy prisoners. Khomeini, apparently feeling that his name had been invoked unnecessarily, finally broke his silence and sided with the militants. The commission, he said, could only "interrogate'' those hostages who had been accused of complicity in the Shah's crimes...
...much as 200% as the result of government decrees and worker militancy. The newly nationalized banking system is in confusion. Many Iranians fear their country could soon become little more than an exporter of oil and an importer of food, with the ruins of the economic structure the Shah built left to gather dust. Says a central bank official in Tehran: "If we do not start an economic recovery within six months, we shall be in a very dangerous situation-politically as well as economically...
...settlement on the hostages may still be possible reasonably soon. Less extreme in his demands than the militants, Banisadr reached a tentative agreement with Washington under which the U.S. would confess to past offenses in Iran, promise not to interfere again, help Iran recover the funds removed by the Shah and refrain from opposing Iran's efforts to force his extradition from Panama...
Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, the deposed Shah of Iran, faced yet another setback in his ill-starred 14-month exile...
...advice of his international team of physicians, the cancer-ridden Shah, 60, was scheduled to undergo major surgery this week: the removal of an inflamed and enlarged spleen that doctors believe may contain a tumor. The former monarch, whose gall bladder was removed at a New York City hospital last October, suffers from a number of other grave ailments, including anemia, that may be related to B-cell lymphoma, a cancer of the lymphatic system...