Word: tehran
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...joined in this traditional hymn and others like it on Easter Sunday. They sang of spiritual rebirth, of renewed hope, of joy in the season. But this was an unusually somber Easter, and many a churchgoer could not forget that half a world away, in the U.S. embassy in Tehran, 50 Americans had begun their sixth month of cruel captivity. They, too, had been promised permission to attend Easter services, to be conducted by three Christian clergymen from the U.S. The clergymen flew from New York City's Kennedy Airport, bearing what one of them, Catholic Priest Darrell Rupiper...
...Camp David, pondering whether to give the Iranian leaders more time to change their minds or to impose immediately his long threatened economic and diplomatic sanctions. These would include a ban on all exports to Iran except food and drugs, a request that American allies reduce their trade with Tehran, and the expulsion of all Iranian diplomats in the U.S. Short of military action, these were the strongest weapons that Jimmy Carter could use in the longest and most frustrating crisis of his presidency...
...prudent and orderly, but last week there was an eruption of leaks and denials, of expectations and frustrations. After weathering the exchanges, an exasperated Hodding Carter, the State Department spokesman, declared: "We find ourselves at some loss to determine exactly what the Iranian government is saying." In Tehran, the Revolutionary Council felt much the same way about Washington. Said Foreign Minister Sadegh Ghotbzadeh after one U.S. denial: "This runs the risk of destroying any faith the Iranians still have in what the American Government says or does." In both countries, the drama was complicated by presidential politics, with Carter fighting...
...with high-level advisers at Camp David. They concluded that Americans were losing patience with the stalemate over the 53 hostages and that this was jeopardizing the President's political future. Accordingly, Carter three days later sent a message to Banisadr through Marcus Kaiser, the Swiss charge in Tehran: Unless the Revolutionary Council took custody of the hostages by March 31the day before the Kansas and Wisconsin primariesthe U.S. would impose sanctions on Iran. Soon afterward, the governments of major European nations and Japan sent letters to Banisadr urging that the hostages be freed. After...
...next afternoon Iranian officials announced that Carter had sent two letters to Tehran. But to the Carter Administration's amazement, the Iranians insisted that one of the messages had been addressed to the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeiniand had been remarkably conciliatory. According to Pars, the official Iranian news agency, Carter admitted past "mistakes" in U.S. policy, described the militants' seizure of the hostages as the "reasonable reaction of the youth of Iran" and proposed a joint American-Iranian commission to review "the problems of the two countries...