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The anti-American demonstration had been meticulously orchestrated. On the third anniversary of the downfall of Shah Mohammed Reza Palahvi, about 30,000 Iranians converged on Tehran's Azadi (Freedom) Square shouting imprecations against the U.S. At the same time, units of Islamic Guards and militia marched upon outsized...
The official reaction to that bizarre incident was symptomatic of the increasingly pro-Moscow tilt of the Islamic revolutionary government. Last week Iran and the Soviet Union concluded an agreement for "accelerated" economic and political cooperation. Under the new arrangement, the Soviets will finish constructing a hydroelectric dam and two...
Tehran's rapprochement with Moscow has enraged many of Iran's right-wing clergymen, who now regard the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini as an opportunist and an apostate. Though the rightists have thus far lost the battle to keep the Islamic revolution uncontaminated by Communist support, they have gathered...
THE FOGG ART MUSEUM'S success has always depended on balancing the first two of these definitions. As a teaching museum, it originally specialized in the Italian Renaissance, but it has since grown in every direction, taking on new fields and specialties without ever compromising its traditional strengths. With courses...
Shooting began, and when it was over hours later, Khiabani and 21 other Mujahedin were dead. Scores of government forces were also killed or injured. According to witnesses, Khiabani's own seven-man detail of bodyguards managed to hold the government gunmen at bay until the guerrilla leader got...