Word: rafsanjani
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...feeling is that the issue of the hostages is moving toward a solution," said Iranian President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani last week. With those words, Rafsanjani stoked the rumor mill that has been working at full blast since late February, when the Tehran Times called for the unconditional release of the 18 Western hostages, eight of them Americans, held in Lebanon for as long as five years. The day after the editorial appeared, Sheik Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, the spiritual leader of Hizballah, a Lebanese group that holds some of the victims, added to the hopeful speculation by saying, "We have...
Iran, which has been working to improve relations with Moscow since the death of Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini last year, seemed embarrassed by the turmoil. In fact, Khomeini's successor, Hashemi Rafsanjani, may have inadvertently fueled the rise of ethnic nationalism in Soviet Azerbaijan when he stopped off there last June after visiting Moscow. He told large crowds in Baku that bilateral agreements he had just signed would lead to increased tourism and trade between the two Azerbaijani regions...