Word: tehran
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...finally had transferred custody of the hostages to the Iranian government, as some unconfirmed reports suggested at week's end. After so many disappointments, the gun-shy American side was keeping silent about the prospects-even as it prepared another message for the Algerians to take back to Tehran...
Repeating earlier assertions, Sullivan also said he warned American officials not to permit the deposed shah to enter this country unless they evacuated beforehand all personnel from the U.S. Embassy in Tehran...
...said he cabled Washington several times in 1979 that "if we wanted to maintain an embassy in Tehran, we wanted to maintain an embassy in Tehran, we should not allow the shah into...
...wanted to maintain a personalized relationship with the shah, we should have closed our embassy and brought our people home. If we wanted to keep an embassy in Tehran, then we should have told the shah that a Canadian doctor could take out his gallstones better than an American," the 73-year-old former diplomat said...
Hopes for a diplomatic settlement fluttered ever so feebly last week. Tehran's Supreme Defense Council requested clarification about the details of a peace plan sponsored by seven Third World countries that it had previously rejected. The council also agreed to accept a visit this week from a United Nations peace delegation headed by former Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme - "provided he comes on a fact-finding mission only," said a Tehran spokesman...