Word: tehran
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Reverend Charles A. Kimball, Proctor at the World Religous Center of the Divinity School, and former attorney general Ramsey Clark are among the nine Americans who have defied President Carter's April 17 travel ban to Iran to participate in a "Crimes of America" conference that started Monday in Tehran...
...included leaders of five Afghan rebel groups in his country's official delegation and warned that Iran might begin to arm and train the rebels unless the Soviets withdraw their troops. At the same time, Ghotbzadeh predictably denounced the abortive U.S. attempt to rescue 53 American hostages in Tehran last month as "another manifestation of American imperialism in the form of armed aggression...
...their lip service to international law and justice, the ministers virtually ignored Iran's illegal and inhumane detention of 53 U.S. citizens. Only through the efforts of Saudi Arabian Foreign Minister Prince Saud al Faisal was a phrase inserted urging Tehran to solve the hostage question "in the spirit of Islam." The delegates denounced Washington for the hostage rescue attempt, which the resolution describes as "the recent American military aggression in Iran...
Less ambiguous than the Muslim ministers, the International Court of Justice at The Hague declared Iran guilty of "continuing breaches" of international law and ordered the immediate release of the hostages and payment of damages to the U.S. Tehran, which does not recognize the court's jurisdiction, is expected to defy the order. But some hopes for a break in the crisis were raised at week's end when three prominent Socialist party leaders-Sweden's Olof Palme, Spain's Felipe Gonzalez and Austrian Chancellor Bruno Kreisky-met in Vienna and discussed the possibility of flying...
...embassy staff that numbered 25 in 1975 now stands at 215 Americans, plus 315 local employees. But at a time when the fortress-like U.S. embassy compound in Tehran remains in the hands of Iranian militants, and the American missions in Islamabad and Tripoli are still scarred from last year's assaults, many staffers in Cairo question the wisdom of constructing an opulent symbol that could easily turn into a lightning rod for anti-American protests. Top aides to Ambassador Alfred Atherton argue that the building would represent a "blatant political statement," and some have already dubbed the proposed...