Word: tehran
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...bloodier too. Late last week, a bomb hidden in a truck exploded in the heart of the capital, destroying a five-story hotel and three passing buses. Hundreds of wounded people were rushed to nearby hospitals, and rescue workers pulled dozens of bodies out of the rubble. According to Tehran Radio, some 60 were killed and 700 wounded. But at week's end authorities still were not sure exactly how many were dead or who had planted the explosives...
DIED. Sadegh Ghotbzadeh, 46, Foreign Minister of Iran during the U.S. hostage crisis; by execution; in Tehran (see WORLD...
...several other cities, I saw enough to conclude that the Khomeini regime is under siege. Anyone anywhere in Tehran is liable to a body search. The most terrifying aspect of the checks is the jittery, trigger-happy condition of the militiamen. They know there is a good chance they will die if they stop an urban guerrilla. When I was stopped one day, I deliberately feigned shock and fear, sitting down and asking for a glass of water. At the first sign of my weakness, their faces lighted up. The leader of the search party told me: "You must understand...
Despite the repression, the people are fighting back. A police captain told me that every single day the Tehran police find one or two bodies of government officials or Islamic Guards, blindfolded, manacled and shot in the head by urban guerrillas. All such bodies have a slip of paper attached, declaring that the victim has been found guilty of treason and sentenced to death by the "People's Court...
...Iran evinces no signs of accommodating Saddam Hussein's wishes. Tehran insists that peace can be achieved only after three conditions are satisfied: the repatriation of 120,000 Iraqi Shi'ites exiled in Iran, the payment of $150 billion in war reparations and "punishment of the aggressor." For Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini and other mullahs in the government hierarchy, the last condition means nothing less than Saddam Hussein's ouster, the destruction of the ruling Baath Party and the establishment of a pro-Iran Shi'ite regime in Baghdad...