Word: tehran
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...American airliner in the Middle East since Ronald Reagan took office in January 1981, and the Administration was deeply disturbed. It was convinced that the hijackers of Flight 847 were in the same league as the ones who seized a Kuwaiti airliner last December, took it to Tehran and eventually killed two American passengers. That incident ended when the Iranians sent a platoon of security men aboard the plane dressed as a maintenance crew. The hijackers were arrested, but there is no evidence that they were ever brought to justice...
Alternatively, the U.S. could go to the presumed root of the trouble: Iran. Carrier-based U.S. warplanes could, for instance, bomb an Iranian air base, an action that the Carter Administration considered taking if Iran had begun to kill the hostages seized at the American embassy in Tehran in 1979. Or the planes could hit the oil-refining and shipping facilities on Kharg Island; that would damage the Iranian economy but cause minimum loss of life...
...battle of the cities was on again as Iraq and Iran resumed the bombing of each other's capitals after a respite of several weeks. Iraq opened the latest round with air attacks against Tehran, Iran's capital, and a dozen other cities. Iran in turn fired a surface-to-surface missile at Baghdad, reportedly destroying part of a soccer stadium, and launched air strikes against nine other Iraqi targets. Iran apparently was also responsible for a rocket strike on a West German freighter in the gulf...
Iraq, whose air superiority over Iran is estimated at about 7 to 1, declared that it had rekindled the air war in retaliation for Iran's alleged involvement in an aborted car-bomb attempt on the life of the ruler of Kuwait, an Iraqi ally, two weeks ago; Tehran denies the charge. Iraq's basic problem is that it desperately wants to end the war it started 56 months ago, but does not know how to achieve that aim. The Iranian leader, Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, continues to insist that hostilities will not end until the regime of Iraqi President Saddam...
...latest message had also been addressed, joined the families in putting pressure on the Administration. The 1984 presidential candidate, who in December 1983 had gone to Syria to arrange the release of a captured U.S. Navy pilot, said he was willing to go to Lebanon or Kuwait or even Tehran if there was "any reasonable chance to have an impact." In response, State Department Spokesman Bernard Kalb said that the Administration was prepared to "facilitate such private efforts." At week's end President Reagan declared, "If Jesse Jackson can do anything, that would be just fine." However, White House Spokesman...