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...returned citizen of Plains squeezed him through an emotional wringer. He had known, of course, that some of the hostages who had been released earlier had been verbally abused and psychologically harassed with threats of death?mild treatment compared with the savagery inflicted on many Iranians during the Shah's rule and then later under Khomeini, though unconscionable nonetheless. But during a wrenching visit with the 52 at the U.S. military hospital in Wiesbaden, West Germany, Carter became appalled at the hostages' descriptions of their ordeal...
...embargo against trade with Iran, and to ask its allies in Europe to do the same. These provisions have already been carried out, although little American trade is expected to be resumed for quite some time. The U.S. also agreed to help locate any assets of the late Shah and his family in America and to freeze them while Iran tries to establish legal claims to them in U.S. courts...
...Sept. 12 to list the four conditions exactly as Tabatabai had detailed them. They were: a U.S. pledge not to interfere in Iranian internal affairs, the unblocking of Iran's frozen assets, elimination of all economic sanctions and U.S. claims against Iran, and the return of the Shah's wealth...
...stunner. "It was outrageous," bellowed one U.S. official. On Dec. 21, Tehran demanded the payment of $24 billion in cash and gold. That amount was the Iranian estimate of the value of the assets frozen by the U.S. Government, interest owed to Iran and the holdings of the late Shah's estate. American officials seriously considered breaking off the talks as hopeless. Instead, they decided to ignore the bizarre $24 billlion figure and to push ahead with the discussions. The Iranians never again mentioned the $24 billion demand...
...Washington with American tax dollars. Says Brent Scowcroft, who was once National Security Adviser to President Ford: "Cutting off the right to sue is paying them off. That's extortion." Some critics also assail the U.S. commitment to help Iran find and recover assets of the late Shah and his family, vague and probably unenforceable as that commitment may be. Asks the Wall Street Journal: "Do we really want finally to capitulate to the Ayatullah's lust for vengeance...