Word: shahs
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...establishment of a U.N.-sponsored international commission before which Iran's new rulers could state their grievances against the U.S. and deposed Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi. At his news conference, Carter said that "an appropriate commission with a carefully defined purpose would be a step toward resolution of this crisis." Exactly who devised this concept has become a matter of hot controversy between Carter and Ted Kennedy in their battle for the Democratic Party's presidential nomination...
...statement about its role in Iran. The new leaders in Tehran have been demanding that Washington confess and apologize for alleged crimes against the Iranian nation supposedly committed while the U.S. backed the Shah. Though the Administration remains adamantly opposed to anything smacking of an apology, it seems ready to issue a statement that would affirm Iran's inviolable sovereignty and pledge not to interfere in its internal affairs. Washington especially has been balking at any reference in such a statement to the CIA-backed coup that returned the Shah to his throne in 1953 or to any wording...
...been the absence in Tehran of any official able to negotiate with authority. For a while this seemed to be still the case last week. Banisadr told Le Monde, the Paris daily, that the release of the American hostages was no longer linked to the return of the deposed Shah, and that "it would suffice that the U.S. admits its responsibilities and resolves never again to interfere in our affairs." This was soon contradicted by Foreign Minister Sadegh Ghotbzadeh, who was in Athens on an official visit. There he declared that "our demands are legitimate and right, and the Shah...
...actually first appeared in a letter to Waldheim from Abolhassan Banisadr, then Iran's Foreign Minister. It was published on Nov. 13, only nine days after the hostages were seized. Banisadr asserted that "the American Government should at least accept the investigation of the guilt of the former Shah." He did not say who should investigate, but, according to a U.N. spokesman, Waldheim privately broached the idea of an international inquiry commission to U.S. and Iranian officials on Nov. 17. He pursued it on a year-end trip to Iran and on a visit to Carter in Washington...
Many Kennedy backers began switching to Carter during the Iranian crisis. Said Detroit Air Traffic Clerk Betsy McCamman, 29: "It's not what Carter did, it's what he didn't do. He didn't overreact." Then Kennedy dismayed still other backers by attacking deposed Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi. To James Schroeder, 33, a hotel bellman in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., this was "dirty pool." Said he: "If anything, Kennedy should have attacked the militants. He should have supported the President." Complained Richard Maynard, 30, a high school social studies teacher in Philadelphia: "There was a move...