Word: tehran
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...resounding "So help me God!" he pledges to uphold the Constitution, and then calls for an "era of national renewal." He leaves the platform, with the U.S. Marine Band playing Hail to the Chief, and minutes later a plane half a world away finally lifts off from a Tehran runway, thus ending an ordeal that has sapped the nation's confidence for 444 agonizing days. Hollywood would not have touched such an improbable melodrama, but so it happened last week, and Ronald Wilson Reagan was the leading...
Official confirmation of the report did not come until shortly after 12:33 p.m., when the first of two planes on the Tehran runway finally took off. The second, which actually bore the hostages, left five minutes later. Gary Sick, the National Security Council's chief Iran team member, relayed the word to Jimmy Carter as he rode toward Andrews Air Force Base for his flight home. James Brady, the new presidential press secretary, tapped Reagan on the shoulder as he entered the Capitol for a lunch with participants in the Inaugural ceremony and told him the news, relayed...
Such crowing kept the Tehran street mobs in a state of agitation and brought the U.S. populace to a mood of rising rage. Carter expelled most of Iran's diplomats from the U.S. in December, and asked the U.N. Security Council to impose economic sanctions on Iran. At the same time, he began to erode Senator Edward Kennedy's supposedly unbeatable lead in the pre-primary-season polls. It was a bad time to be an Iranian student in the U.S. and a good time to be a seller of flags. The citizens of Hermitage...
...imposition of reluctantly agreed-to economic sanctions against Iran. Carter's mood remained grim; he imposed a ban against U.S. travel to Iran and hinted that little remained for the U.S. except military action. Mrs. Barbara Timm, mother of Hostage Kevin Hermening, defied the travel ban, flew to Tehran and managed to see her son, but was not granted the audience she wanted with Khomeini...
...dealing with its own considerable troubles (30% unemployment, 50% inflation, low oil exports, a nasty border squabble with Iraq), but he could not persuade the newly convened Majlis to act. The summer dragged on. Ramsey Clark defied Carter's half-hearted travel ban and attended a conference in Tehran on "Crimes of America." The militants released Richard Queen, a hostage suffering from multiple sclerosis. On July 27 the Shah died, an event that months before might have been useful but now seemed almost irrelevant to the crisis. Richard Nixon was the only notable American at his Cairo funeral...