Word: tehran
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...when humor can be found in the Tehran situation, I suggest a film starring Sellers as the Shah, Khomeini and Banisadr-the last without makeup...
...Right. On Iran, we explain that Roosevelt visited Tehran, knows the city inside...
Politics by terrorism is not confined to Tehran or Bogota. Last week, just one day before Puerto Rico's Democratic primary and three days before Illinois's general primary, two armed bands claiming to belong to the Puerto Rican nationalist F.A.L.N. attacked Carter-Mondale campaign headquarters in Chicago and George Bush's office in New York City, seizing hostages in both places. The F.A.L.N. (for Fuerzas Armadas de Liberatión National) has claimed responsibility for more than 100 bombings in major U.S. cities in the past six years and obviously wants to make Puerto Rico...
There are, it now appears, two sets of hostages in Tehran. One consists of the 50 Americans who have been held prisoner at the U.S. embassy by Iranian student militants for 4½ months. The other is the fledgling government of President Abolhassan Banisadr. Ending an intense battle of wills between the militants and the government over the fate of the hostages, the ailing spiritual leader of Iran's revolution, Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, decreed last week that a five-member United Nations commission could see the American hostages only after it first published a report on the crimes...
...after day, Banisadr and Ghotbzadeh promised that the meeting between commissioners and hostages would take place, but nothing happened. On Wednesday evening, the commissioners announced that unless a meeting could be arranged soon, they would have to head home. Ghotbzadeh rushed to the Tehran Hilton from a midnight session of the Revolutionary Council, saying he would soon tell the commissioners the time for the proposed meeting with the hostages. Once again, nothing happened. Next morning, as the commissioners were packing their bags for their return flight to New York, Ghotbzadeh invited them to the Foreign Ministry to discuss "important...