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Hostage to Khomeini by Robert Dreyfuss

Hostage to Khomeini Robert Dreyfuss ebook
Page: 241
ISBN: 0933488114, 9780933488113
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Format: pdf

But as hostages, they would become pawns in an internal power struggle within Iran, a handy political device for Khomeini as he sought “hate-figures” to unite the country behind him. And now Khomeini's successor is preparing for nuclear war with Israel and the West. This is not another 'October Surprise' theory purporting how the hostage crisis resulted in some Khomeini-Republic better deal. The Iranian hostage taking was politically staged and instigated by the operatives in the shadow CIA. 4, 1980, he found his efforts to resolve the hostage crisis thwarted. Rather than simply occupying the embassy for a while and departing, the protesters took 52 hostages and held them with the approval of the country's new leader, Ayatollah Khomeini. That theory puts the cart before the horse. Your Questions About Iran Hostage Crisis 3. Bani-Sadr said he discovered that “Ayatollah Khomeini and Ronald Reagan had organized a clandestine negotiation, later known as the 'October Surprise,'. In the name of human rights, i gave rise to one of the worst rights violators in history, the Ayatollah Khomeini. 4th November was the anniversary of the takeover of the US embassy in Tehran, in 1979, by Student Followers of Imam Khomeini's Path.