Word: tehran
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Tehran, Iran...
...begins a letter, poignant in retrospect, written by Charge d'Affaires L. Bruce Laingen of the U.S. embassy in Tehran to his wife in Bethesda, Md. The deposed Shah of Iran had been admitted to the U.S. for medical treatment less than two weeks earlier, and Laingen was describing an anti-American demonstration outside the embassy. Laingen left the letter on his office desk. Three days later-on Nov. 4, 1979-the embassy was overrun by Iranian militants and America's 444-day hostage ordeal began...
...Laingen letter is among hundreds of classified embassy cables, Government documents and personal papers seized by the militants and published in a set of 13 paperback books in Iran last spring. Though the volumes have been sold in Tehran for months, for about $8 a set, the contents became widely known only as the books began to be distributed in Europe in recent weeks. Many documents were found intact by the embassy attackers but others had been shredded by frantic U.S. personnel. These have been painstakingly pasted back together by the militants. The papers were of different colors-blue, pink...
...said that the crew, which went to Iran under contract to CBS this fall, purchased 11 volumes of material found by Iranians when they seized the American Embassy in Tehran in 1979. The books they purchased were on sale in bookstores and newsstands throughout the country, Goodman said. "They even had them in the airport stores," she added...
...proposal was first made during a Nov. 18 meeting in Tehran between Vladimir Vinogradov, the Soviet Ambassador to Iran, and Iranian Prime Minister Mir Hossein Mousavi...