Word: tehran
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have -and still may-net him millions in broker's fees for delivering Libyan crude. The inquiry will also explore National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski's bizarre use of Billy as a secret intermediary to persuade Libya to pressure Iran into releasing the American hostages held in Tehran. And the hearings will dig for any evidence that Billy got improper help from the White House or lenient treatment from the Justice Department in avoiding criminal prosecution for failing to disclose details of his Libyan dealings earlier...
...militants in Tehran stormed the U.S. embassy, seizing its occupants as hostages. Apparently without any prompting from the U.S., Libya's foreign ministry on Nov. 20 publicly called on the Khomeini government to release the Americans...
...year was 1971. Yet even then, to those who looked beyond the grandeur, there were signs that all was not well in the Shah's realm. The party grounds were sealed with barbed wire; troops armed with submachine guns stood guard. The University of Tehran was closed to forestall embarrassing signs of protest. By 1978, resentment against the imperial arrogance of Persepolis had ignited a revolution that spread from mosques to merchants to the remotest villages of the country. When Mohammed Reza Pahlavi died in a Cairo hospital last week at the age of 60 of lymphatic cancer complicated...
...Muslim fundamentalists who overthrew him. His search for a home took him initially from Egypt to Morocco to the Bahamas to Mexico. Last October he requested permission to enter the U.S. for medical treatment. Despite warnings that his admission could irreparably damage relations with the new government in Tehran, the Carter Administration, encouraged by Henry Kissinger and David Rockefeller, decided to admit the Shah on humanitarian grounds...
...symptoms include loss of coordination, numbness, dizziness and a weakening of the muscles that sometimes leads later to paralysis. Queen suffered from these symptoms as early as last December, a month after he was taken prisoner by the militants who seized the U.S. embassy in Tehran. When his condition grew worse, Khomeini, for "humane reasons," ordered him sent home for treatment...