Word: tehran
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When his presidency was just five hours old, on Inauguration Day, 1981, Ronald Reagan took a respite from the celebration and the constant bulletins about the hostages en route home from Tehran by joking with reporters, "It's been a very wonderful day. I guess now I can go back to California...
...thoroughly that, unlike Carter, he was largely immune to political damage when terrorists demonstrated in bloody fashion just how vulnerable the country still is. Two hundred forty-one servicemen died in Beirut, and 259 people were killed when Pan Am Flight 103 went down last month. In the Tehran crisis that destroyed Carter, the hostages survived...
...died last week in the crash of a small Cessna plane in Mexico. The pilot also died, and two passengers were injured. Nir, a former aide to Shimon Peres and to Yitzhak Shamir, worked closely with North in the sale of U.S. arms to Iran, traveled with him to Tehran in the attempted arms-for-hostage exchanges and briefed Vice President Bush on the ill-fated scheme...
...scandal occurred when former National Security Advisor Robert McFarlane went on a secret mission to Iran, bringing with him a cake and a bible for the Ayatollah. The question in Iran was, who ate the cake? The Holy Court spent days trying to determine the culprit--following what the Tehran newspapers gleefully called "The Trail of Crumbs"--until the investigations led to Akeem, the person who drove McFarlane to the airport...
...July 27, 1980, Radio Tehran announced the death of "the bloodsucker of the century." The judgment was self-serving and exaggerated the Shah's stature. Shawcross's story of a pawn in King's clothing comes to a sorrier conclusion. The Shah's reign, this book suggests, was less a study in the banality of evil than the banality of pride...