Word: shahs
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...steps" toward meeting their demands. In June, for example, the French compelled an Iranian opposition leader, Massoud Rajavi, and 300 of his mujahedin followers to leave France for Baghdad. In November France agreed to make an initial payment on a $1 billion loan extended in 1975 by the late Shah to the French nuclear power program...
...down over Nicaragua on Oct. 5, had performed similar work as a CIA "cargo kicker" over Laos during the Viet Nam War. A more significant connection is George Cave, who was a young CIA agent in Tehran in 1953 when the Company helped engineer the coup that restored the Shah of Iran to power. In the mid '70s Cave served in Tehran as deputy CIA station chief, and the Shah took a personal liking to the suave agent who spoke fluent Farsi. Cave retired from the CIA shortly after the Shah was overthrown. Yet on the arms-laden U.S. cargo...
...will happen in post-Khomeini Iran depends on the interplay of such political forces as the clergy, the military, and some of the opposition forces. The Left, which is now fragmented, might unite to influence the succession after Khomeini, just as it did in the struggle to overthrow the Shah. Some clergymen who have coexisted with Khomeni without totally or irreversibly identifying with his despotism may also act, particularly if this crisis degenerates into a civil...
...that the drama started in 1981, just after Reagan came into office, when U.S. officials learned that Israel was ignoring the 1979 American ban on the sale of arms to Iran. At the time Iran badly needed spare parts for the American-made weapons it had acquired during the Shah's reign. In their hour of need the Iranians looked to Israel, which had also supplied weapons to the Shah...
...showing that he had sufficient influence to win freedom for an American hostage. "It is clear that the Americans did not understand who they were dealing with," says one knowledgeable dissident. "It seems they thought they were still dealing with one Iranian government, just as they did under the Shah...