Word: teheran
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...context of Carter’s reinstatement of draft registration] suggests it was an attempt to show how tough he was and how he was preparing for military action against the revolutionaries who had taken over the U.S. Embassy in Teheran and held 52 hostages,” he writes in an e-mail...
...those who think that the despotic jailing and kidnapping of Americans abroad is unrelated to the war on terror, remember that the opening salvos in the Islamists’ crusade against the West were fired when a group of Iranians seized control of the U.S. embassy in Teheran in 1979. For the next 444 days they held dozens of Americans hostage, while Washington appeared impotent...
...This ideology is found within the al Qaeda organization but is also espoused widely throughout the Muslim world. Preachers of and believers in this ideology are found in the madrassas of Pakistan, the dense jungles of Basilan, the slums of London and Paris, the capitals of Damascus and Teheran and the villages of the West Bank. The results of this ideology at work can be found in oppressive regimes, murdered tourists, fallen towers and blood-splattered pizza parlors...
...seek to dilute the strength of our worldwide efforts at expanding freedom and democracy by saying that our values conflict with “Asian values” or “Islamic values”? The slaughtered demonstrators of Tiananmen Square and the young Internet-surfers in Teheran belie such generalizations. Iran and China will never look like America, nor should they, but anyone who says a little democracy and freedom of expression would not make these nations better places is sacrificing morality for political correctness...
Warren Christopher and James Baker III call a joint press conference asking for both sides to "chill." But their appearance takes a sudden rancorous turn when Baker jests with reporters afterward, "With all due respect, it was Ronald Reagan's election that got our hostages out of Teheran, not some elegantly tailored twerp L.A. lawyer...