Word: tehran
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Along with the fate of Terry Waite and the plight of the hostages in Lebanon, the U.S. was concerned last week about the detention of Wall Street Journal Correspondent Gerald Seib in Tehran. Seib was one of more than 100 foreign journalists invited by the Iranian government to visit the country and, not incidentally, to report on Iran's recent progress in the gulf war. Toward the end of a five-day visit, he was suddenly arrested and accused of being "a spy for the Zionist regime." For several days it appeared that he would be brought to trial...
McFarlane flew to Tehran, Iran, last May with aplane load of U.S. weapons and--according toHashemi Rafsanjani, speaker of the Iranianparliament--a Bible, signed by Reagan...
...former national security adviser to Reagansaid recently he had hoped that his secret missionto Tehran would result in the release of Americanhostages held in Lebanon by pro-Iranian extremists
When former National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane, North and the CIA's Cave flew into Tehran with a planeload of U.S. arms last May, Cave still distrusted Ghorbanifar and managed to underscore doubts about him in McFarlane's mind as well. While in Tehran, Cave bypassed Ghorbanifar to cultivate a direct contact with Speaker Rafsanjani. He was sufficiently successful that McFarlane, too, felt he no longer needed Ghorbanifar...
Iraq has counterattacked with devastating air raids on a dozen Iranian cities, including Tehran, Isfahan and the holy city of Qum. Iran's Islamic Republic News Agency reported last week that 212 civilians had been killed and more than 600 wounded in the raids. Iran retaliated by firing a long-range missile that struck a residential area of Baghdad, causing dozens of casualties...