Word: shah
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...chief hostage negotiator, Behzad Nabavi, had urged the Majlis, the Iranian parliament, to take emergency action to pass two bills that would expedite settlement of the hostage issue. One would authorize arbitration of disputes involving Iranian assets in the U.S. The other would nationalize all assets of the late Shah, thus making Iran's claims to his property more legally defensible. But when the Majlis met to consider the two bills, a required quorum of the twelve-man Council of Guardians, a group of six clerics and six laymen who determine whether the parliament's actions conform...
With little public notice, a judge in Switzerland, responding to claims lodged by Swiss lawyers representing Iran's central bank, ordered the Shah's villa in the ski resort of St. Moritz to be held under a writ of attachment barring its sale or alteration. The Shah had paid some $2 million for it in 1968. Iranian officials claimed that they have gained similar court sanctions against 13 other assets of the Shah's family in Switzerland, including a $440,000 Geneva apartment owned by Princess Ashraf, the Shah's sister...
...arbitration bill was passed, but action on the less urgent measure nationalizing the Shah's assets was postponed. The Guardians filed out of the assembly, met solemnly in private and emerged to declare the legislation to be in keeping with Islamic law. Learning of the decision, U.S. State Department Spokesman John Trattner said only: "It's a step in the right direction." Also dampening any euphoria, Secretary of State Edmund Muskie suggested that the Administration would work at the problem right up to the moment that Reagan is inaugurated. "The real deadline is the 20th, not the 16th...
...Iranians had by now dropped their previous demand that specific sums be set aside as a guarantee against failure by Tehran to locate and recover the assets of the Shah. Tehran's response also raised no major objections to U.S. estimates of the amount of Iranian funds that had been frozen by Carter and that should be made available to Iran once the hostages were released. The reply, moreover, showed a willingness to work with American banks in resolving differences over Iran's past loans. The text suggested that "past and future loan installments" could be deducted from...
...shouters that formed outside the high walls of the U.S. embassy in Tehran that morning of Sunday, Nov. 4, 1979, did not seem at first to be unusually menacing. The Iranians chanted "Death to America," but demonstrations had periodically rumbled around the embassy before in the ten months since Shah Reza Pahlavi had been forced out of Iran by the Muslim revolution. In February, Marxist guerrillas had seized the embassy and held it for nearly two hours. That time, forces loyal to the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, in what now seems the sourest of ironies, came to the rescue of Ambassador...