The Contemporary Middle East. A Documentary History

DOCUMENT Proclamation of an Islamic Republic in Iran APRIL1, 1979 Attention please: Here is a message by the leader of the Irani ...

centrated ranks. Now you should hold your destiny in your own hands and not give any opportunity to those who are waiting for an ...

The crisis began on November 4, 1979, when several hundred students partici- pating in a demonstration stormed the U.S. embassy ...

aligned himself too closely with Iran’s communist party. The coup restored power to the shah, who had fled Iran after an earlier ...

between the United States and Iran. The administration of President Bill Clinton took tentative steps in that direction between ...

lion people know, and hundreds of millions of people in other countries of the world know, that this man is guilty, was oppressi ...

their families and their friends. But we will not rest, nor deviate from our efforts, until all have been freed from their impri ...

a direct physical threat to our national security, and we must join together to fight for our Nation’s energy freedom. We know t ...

But I took the right decision. I have no regrets about it nor apologies to make, because it did help to save a man’s life, and i ...

and judgments obtained therein, to prohibit all further litigation based on such claims, and to bring about the termination of s ...

bullion which is owned by Iran and which is in the custody of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, together with all other Iran ...

the establishment of the security account, which arrangements will be concluded within 30 days from the date of this Declaration ...

tion known to them, as of November 3, 1979, and as of the date of the order, with respect to the property and assets referred to ...

U.S.-Iranian Relations DOCUMENT IN CONTEXT During the last years of President Bill Clinton’s second term, some leaders in Iran a ...

States would be possible only when Washington dropped its hostile attitude toward Iran, Khatami added. He also acted on his word ...

warming of relations. On March 25, Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, gave a speech in Mashhad, in northeast Iran, d ...

accusing Ahmadinejad of attempting to undermine Western resolve to oppose Iran’s alleged plans to build nuclear weapons (Iranian ...

Question:Mr. President, 20 million people cast a vote for a change of course of direction in their revolution. You have spoken a ...

DOCUMENT Clinton Remarks on Iran at the White House Millennium Dinner APRIL12, 1999 ... I would like to make one more point whic ...

DOCUMENT Albright Remarks before the American-Iranian Council MARCH17, 2000 ... The democratic winds in Iran are so refreshing, ...