Word: toed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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To buttress their claims that the embassy was a "nest of spies," the students released a copy of a purported cable to the State Department. It indicated that a William Daugherty and a Malcolm Kalp, who the militants claimed were among the hostages, were CIA officers. The document also implied...
The existence of CIA officers in the embassy would be no surprise. Indeed, intelligence experts were puzzled that the U.S. apparently had so few. The Soviet embassy in Tehran has a far larger complement of KGB operatives. The U.S. reduced its CIA staff in Tehran after the revolution to lessen...
With the referendum behind him, the next step for Khomeini was to name the members of his new government. But this process was suddenly interrupted by the revolt of the Azerbaijani Turks, who follow the leadership of Iran's second most powerful ayatullah, Sharietmadari. They number about 13 million...
They clashed with a group of Azerbaijanis who had made a pilgrimage to Qum to see Sharietmadari. Pro-Khomeini guards fired into the air and used tear gas to disperse the crowd. Later, an unidentified sniper killed one man guarding Shariet-madari's house. Subsequently, an Iranian soldier was...
The shootings prompted a march by 30,000 Sharietmadari followers in Tabriz, the capital of Azerbaijan province, and the march quickly turned into a full-scale revolt. The insurgents seized control of government buildings, the governor's mansion and the local headquarters of the national radio and television station...