Word: tehran
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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First, Afrasiabi wrote articles for a weekly publication in Tehran encouraging the Iranian government to restore relations with the United States. Mottahedeh told Afrasiabi the articles were too controversial and that he was exploiting his Harvard affiliation, Afrasiabi said...
...flight attendant hijacked an Iranian jetliner with more than 170 people aboard after it took off from Tehran, then forced it to land at an Israeli air force base. Sam Allis, in Jerusalem, reports that the hijacker first sought political asylum in the U.S., then asked for asylum in Israel. He surrendered about an hour after the plane landed at Ovda Airforce Base in Israel's southern Negev Desert. (Jordan and Saudi Arabia both refused the hijacker's requests to land in those countries.) Allis says the man was also turned down at Ben Gurion International Airport in Tel Aviv...
...Security Command in northern Virginia, Colonel Mike Tanksley sketches the barest outlines of the new Armageddons. These are only "What ifs?" he insists, so there cannot really be details. Yet his war scenario resounds with almost biblical force. The next time a tyrant out of some modern Babylon (Baghdad, Tehran or Tripoli, for example) threatens an American ally (Riyadh, Cairo, Jerusalem) the U.S. doesn't immediately send legions of soldiers or fleets of warships. Instead Washington visits upon the offending tyranny a series of thoroughly modern plagues, born of mice, video screens and keyboards...
...nations of the world? Well, not exactly. Little of Haiti's national budget goes to culture. Zaire does not support a national theater, and cultural grants in Rwanda, even for victim art, may be assumed to be fairly small. No documentaries infected by liberal bias get aired on Tehran state television. Saddam Hussein's boys are not straining to underwrite feminist histories of, say, the Marsh Arabs of the Euphrates...
...economic crisis may be endangering its nuclear energy program, which the U.S. fears is a stepping-stone to the development of nuclear weapons. Negotiations for Chinese reactors are stalled over lack of money. Russia is selling Iran a light-water reactor -- despite U.S. objections -- for $1 billion, but Tehran is half a billion dollars in arrears with its payments for other Russian imports...