Word: tehran
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...writing this letter to your magazine so that it can be read by the largest number of people possible. My fellow Americans and I have for the past eight months been held hostage here in Tehran, and as a result of this our morale becomes quite low at times. One of the reasons for an uplift of that morale is mail sent to us by family and friends. But what continually amazes me is the mail sent to us not only from my country but from people all over the world, whom I've never met, wishing us good...
Raja'i is said by fellow inmates to have begged for mercy when tortured by SAVAK, the Shah's secret police. "His behavior at the time was certainly not heroic," notes one former prisoner. Students in his math classes at the Kamal Islamic high school in Tehran describe Raja'i as "inflexible" and "humorless," qualities that he appears to have brought with him into political life. He showed an awesome highhandedness as Minister of Education, for example, by disbanding the entire provincial school system in the rebellious western region of Kurdistan and firing 12,000 teachers...
...outburst in Tehran came just when U.S. officials believed that the hostage crisis might be easing. Not only was the Shah dead, but the Iranian Parliament at last had convened; Washington had hoped that that body would resolve the hostage issue quickly so that it could concentrate on Iran's critical domestic problems. Said a Carter Administration official: "We have been avoiding any actions that would flare up emotions in Tehran against the U.S. Now all of a sudden you've got mobs outside the U.S. embassy again...
...efforts by President Abolhassan Banisadr, a relative moderate, to release the hostages. The militants also might be maneuvering to prevent an attempt by their clerical leaders to resolve the crisis. In London, where Iranians have demonstrated against the U.S. and been arrested, Scotland Yard also thinks that militants in Tehran might have been calling the shots...
American officials believe, but lack concrete proof, that the zealots in Tehran have been financing militant Iranian activities in the U.S. The key man is suspected to be Bahram Nahidian, a Georgetown rug merchant who is believed to have access to several million dollars provided by Iran. U.S. law enforcement officials think that the Iranian militant network in this country is in daily radio and telephone contact with the hard-liners in Tehran. Officials even feel that some of the Iranians have been recruited as assassins to intimidate and eliminate leaders of the anti-Khomeini Iranian community in America...