Word: tehran
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...wearing proper Islamic covering. They threw acid in their faces or said, 'Let me take off your lipstick,' and cut their lips with a razor hidden in a Kleenex." She also recalls the early lure of plunder. "The government offered my husband and me a villa in north Tehran. It was incredible, like a palace. My husband said, 'No, we can't take it.' But there were many other Revolutionary Guards who drank alcohol and took people's houses. It sickened us, and we both quit. Now my husband is a truck driver. He drives to Germany. When he comes...
...Israel regard Iran as a rogue state that seeks to export terror, build nuclear weapons and sabotage the Middle East peace process. When the Clinton Administration recently imposed a complete economic embargo, the rhetoric was harsher than that against any other country. But however real the threat from Tehran may be, one factor is not widely understood: the revolution is decaying. Iran is already severely undermining itself...
DIED. AHMAD KHOMEINI, 48, militant son of the late Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini; after a heart attack; in Tehran. He played no official role but was considered the standard bearer of the Ayatullah's revolutionary preachings...
Clinton and Bush Administration officials now admit they knew about Conoco's prospective $1 billion oil contract with Iran. President Clinton nixed the deal by executive order this week. The Houston-based oil firm said today in Senate testimony that it was never told to halt negotiations with Tehran to develop offshore oil fields, despite State Department concerns about Iran's terrorist activities. Senate Banking Committee chairman Alfonse D'Amato (R-N.Y.), who held a hearing on the matter today, said that State Department officials misled the company: "The Clinton and Bush Administrations knew and did nothing," D'Amato...
...weekend efforts to "choreograph" a graceful withdrawal by the firm, bars any U.S. citizens or companies from signing oil development contracts with the Iranian government. Clinton acted to reinforce a U.S. crackdown on Iran's support of international terrorism, on its efforts to undermine Middle East peace and Tehran's possible development of nuclear weapons. "The problem was not the deal, it's what the Iranians might do with profits from the deal," says Thompson. "U.S. oil companies have been buying Iranian oil for a long time with their offshore subsidiaries, but the Conoco deal would have generated hard currency...