Word: tehran
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...months the Soviet Union has been gaining a long-coveted foothold in Iran. In mid-October the ruling Islamic Republic Party accepted Moscow's offer to send agents to Iran to strengthen Tehran's intelligence and security forces, as well as bolster the Islamic Guard, the I.R.P.'s military arm. Another Soviet team was dispatched to assist in rebuilding the country's devastated economy. Now the Soviets, in their boldest ploy to date, are pressing Iran to sign a mutual cooperation pact that would effectively draw Khomeini's revolutionary government into Moscow's sphere...
...sources said that the publication is being sold in bookstores in Tehran and that the Federal Bureau of Investigation has seized copies from travelers entering the United States...
BEIRUT--The Iranian government has published a 12-volume series of secret U.S. documents seized by militant students during the 1979 embassy takeover in Tehran, travelers from Iran said yesterday...
...Associated Press, which obtained some of the volumes, said yesterday that one volume is in English and is titled "Documents From the American Spy Den in Tehran." Other volumes are in Farsi, the language of Iran...
...Soviets have purged the central committee of the Tudeh of what they call "bourgeois-minded reformists" and put in their own people. The security agents have set up shop in Saltanatabad, a northern suburb of Tehran, in the former headquarters of SAVAK, the notorious secret police of Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi. Recruits for the new revolutionary secret service include some Islamic Guards, the better members of an inefficient secret service created after the fall of the Shah, and former SAVAK agents who have lost none of their taste for brutality and their skill at torture. Their Soviet teachers...