Word: shah
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...OPEC state that is already selling oil at a discount is Iran. The Tehran government's prices range from $30 to $32 per bbl., but the revolution-racked regime is having difficulty producing enough oil to export. Before the fall of the Shah in 1979, Iran was the second largest producer in OPEC after Saudi Arabia...
...Korea. Israel, which regards Iraq as its most implacable enemy among the Muslim states, has sold Iran Israeli-made weapons such as sea-to-sea and air-to-air missiles, as well as some parts for the U.S.-made matériel the Ayatullah's regime inherited when Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi was deposed in 1979. Still, most of the $1 billion in weaponry that Iran has bought has come from an international network of arms dealers or directly from Western European sources...
...People issue featured articles on a boxing run and the Shah of Iran's continuing career in Hell, as well as a cover photograph of actress Brooke Shields bolding a large dead fish...
...hostage crisis in Iran further served to rid the country of its post-Vietnam guilt. Instead of seeing the immorality of propping up the dictatorial shah, Americans learned only that we should "overcome our reticence, develop more destructive strategic weapons, deploy forces prepared for rapid intervention throughout the world, 'unleash' the CIA, and otherwise demonstrate our pugnacity." He sums...
...Moscow tilt of the Islamic revolutionary government. Last week Iran and the Soviet Union concluded an agreement for "accelerated" economic and political cooperation. Under the new arrangement, the Soviets will finish constructing a hydroelectric dam and two power plants in Iran that they had begun building under the Shah. Iranian Energy Minister Hassan Ghafurifard declared in Moscow that the Soviet Union is a "friendly country," a telling contrast to the epithet "aggressor superpower of the East" that Iran had until recently reserved for the U.S.S.R...