Word: tehran
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...years as the nation's swiftest and highest-flying reconnaissance planes, SR-71 Blackbirds detected China's first atomic test in 1964 and snapped photos of Tehran detailed enough to encourage Jimmy Carter to order his hostage rescue attempt in 1980. Flying at more than 100,000 ft. at speeds exceeding 2,000 m.p.h. they evaded more than 1,000 surface-to-air missiles launched to shoot them down. But last week the SR-71s were finally grounded by Pentagon cost cutters who believe spy satellites made the planes obsolete...
Among the first Western visitors were 33 Italians who paid $2,000 apiece in December for a nine-day tour of Tehran and major archaeological sites. Elda Chiaraviglio, a Turin travel agent who helped organize the group, called the visit "a leap backward into medieval Islam, but fascinating." While many Iranians remain hostile to the U.S., she noted, the American dollar was the only foreign currency that Iranian black marketeers would accept...
...Hundreds of Azerbaijani Muslims who had illegally entered into Iran returned home, many of them bearing weapons. Ayatullah Abdul Karim Moussavi Ardebili, a former Iranian Chief Justice, said in Tehran that Communist states are "anti-God" and that Soviet Azerbaijan is now a "great market for the introduction of Islam." Though Iranian officials played down the crisis, perhaps fearing that Iran's Azerbaijani minority might take a lesson from events across the border, Ardebili's speech raised the possibility that Gorbachev should be less worried about Azerbaijan's becoming another Afghanistan than about its turning into another Iran...
...themselves and their ethnic kin on the other side of the Iranian border. Because such a state would violate the integrity of two existing countries, those demands are setting the stage for an unlikely, if not necessarily unholy, alliance between the Communists in Moscow and the Islamic fundamentalists in Tehran. Opposing Azerbaijani nationalism would align Washington with both...
...Security Council resolution censuring Washington for allowing soldiers to sift through the Nicaraguan Ambassador's residence in Panama City on Dec. 29. The U.S.'s chief U.N. delegate, Thomas Pickering, called the action an "honest mistake." Perhaps. But one might think that the U.S., whose embassies in Tehran and Islamabad have been sacked, would take more care to avoid such a mistake...