Word: tehran
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Americans rejoiced in the Inauguration Day liberation of the 52 hostages from the U.S. embassy in Tehran. Nonetheless, Iran threatens to succeed Viet Nam as a symbol of American frustration and impotence. American diplomatic support and military backing could not prevent the fall of the Shah, who for decades seemed the paragon of a U.S. friend overseas. Then came the humiliation of the embassy seizure, the burning of American flags, the ritual chanting of "Death to the great satan!" by mullah-led mobs. Recent years have spawned an array offerees seemingly inimical to American interests, ranging from the extortionist pricing...
...such story, the plight of TIME Reporter Raji Samghabadi, has until now remained secret. A native of Iran who taught himself English by reading Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and T.E. Lawrence's Seven Pillars of Wisdom, Samghabadi was managing editor of an English-language daily in Tehran. In March 1979, he joined TIME'S Tehran bureau and stayed on after the magazine's correspondents were expelled at the end of that year. Because of concerns for his safety, his name has been kept out of the magazine for nearly a year. Those fears turned...
Last Nov. 4, as the polling booths were opening in the U.S. and the sun was setting in Tehran, I had just finished reporting a story on terms set by the Majlis for the release of the American hostages. To relax, I went down to the basement of the Time-Life office in Tehran to play Ping-Pong with friends...
...government's handling of the negotiations. Iran's problems, he asserted, resulted from its revolutionary upheavals and not from the hostage crisis. No other regime, he said, "could have obtained from the United States more than this government has." Chief Hostage Negotiator Behzad Nabavi later conceded that Tehran got much less than the $24 billion it had originally demanded, but added somewhat lamely: "We should avoid looking at the issue through a trader's eyes. Our political gains were far greater...
...conference was set back at the beginning by Iran's refusal to attend and, in a way, was dominated throughout by the absence of the Iranians. Even a special delegation that flew to Tehran was turned back by Iran's refusal to share any forum with its enemy in the gulf war, Iraq's President Saddam Hussein...