Word: shah
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...when humor can be found in the Tehran situation, I suggest a film starring Sellers as the Shah, Khomeini and Banisadr-the last without makeup...
...government over the fate of the hostages, the ailing spiritual leader of Iran's revolution, Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, decreed last week that a five-member United Nations commission could see the American hostages only after it first published a report on the crimes of the deposed Shah...
...guest of the Shah of Iran on New Year's Eve, 1977, Carter toasted his host for his "great leadership." A year later, when mobs were rioting in Tehran, Carter helped nudge the Shah into exile. During this crisis, Carter ordered a U.S. naval task force to sail toward the Persian Gulf, then ordered it back to the Philippines...
...Specifically, the critics had charged that Carter had given in to the militants by approving a special United Nations commission proposed by Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim. The job of the five commissioners-lawyers from Algeria, France, Sri Lanka, Syria and Venezuela-was to investigate Iranian grievances against the deposed Shah and his U.S. supporters, and also to check on the health and safety of the American hostages...
...beginning of the week, the Revolutionary Council had decided that the commission should be allowed to see the hostages. The militants simply vetoed the idea. "We should have been consulted," they said imperiously. Later they proposed that the commission should first publish its report on the evils of the Shah and his American friends. If they liked the report, said the militants, they would allow the commissioners to return to Tehran and interview the hostages. Alternatively, they suggested that the commissioners talk only with the 14 hostages whom their captors have accused of espionage...