Word: tehran
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...left only on how much protection to extend to the U.S. steel industry and whether to allow banks to open branches in other states. The President also was, as always, preoccupied with the hostage crisis in Iran, giving final approval to a State Department message that was dispatched to Tehran through Algerian intermediaries (see WORLD...
Three harried-looking Algerian diplomats, conspicuous in their distinctive tailored overcoats, landed at Mehrabad Airport in Tehran last Friday in an atmosphere of high anxiety and tight security. Greeted by aides of Prime Minister Mohammed Ali Raja'i, they were led quickly past a group of jostling reporters held back by a cordon of police and Islamic Guards, and ushered by plainclothes security men into Mercedes limousines that whisked them directly to a meeting with top Iranian officials. In a dark brown briefcase, the Algerians carried a seven-page document, a formal U.S. bargaining proposal in the hostage negotiations...
With the clock running out on the Carter Administration, U.S. negotiators and the Algerian intermediaries had met at Camp David and in Washington for nearly four days to prepare the reply to Tehran's latest demand for the release of 52 American hostages-the infamous $24 billion "guarantee" that President Carter had angrily and accurately described as "ransom." Nonetheless, Administration officials decided that a final offer just might succeed. The U.S. negotiators placed two hopes on the latest effort: first, that a suitable formula could still be found for satisfying Iran's demands for financial guarantees; second, that...
Although the President and State Department could have been tempted to cut off further discussions with those whom Secretary of State Edmund Muskie publicly described as "very stubborn, irrational" Iranian officials, they vowed to keep channels of communication open with Tehran, even as they began to lose hope that any progress could be made in their remaining three weeks in office...
...also have contributed to the sudden toughening of Iran's demands, just as a solution had seemed possible. Travelers leaving Iran last week reported that increasingly violent demonstrations have broken out against Ayatullah Khomeini and the ruling Muslim mullahs. There have been almost daily street protests in Tehran, Shiraz, Tabriz, Isfahan and even the religious centers of Mashhad and Qum. One report estimated that 100 people had been killed in Tabriz when an anti-Khomeini crowd clashed with soldiers and revolutionary guards...