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  • The Navy's counter-terrorism unit was born in the aftermath of Operation Eagle Claw, the failed 1980 mission ordered by President Jimmy Carter to rescue fifty-two Americans held captive at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, Iran.†   (source)
  • In the early 1980s, when I taught at the University of Tehran, I, like many others, was expelled.†   (source)
  • The reports of his death had been part of an elaborate operation to deceive his enemies in Moscow and Tehran.†   (source)
  • Belfast, Montevideo, Tangier, Marseille, Lima, Tehran.†   (source)
  • Hasina's family had fled in May, off to Tehran.†   (source)
  • In first-grade geography, I had to learn the shape of Iran and the location of its capital, Tehran.†   (source)
  • Once, I was even a guest lecturer in Tehran, 1971 that was.†   (source)
  • Having never set foot outside Iran, he needed to go to Tehran to obtain a passport.†   (source)
  • My mother and I went to live in Ahwaz with my aunt Fatimeh, while my father worked in Tehran.†   (source)
  • They took rooms in an old-fashioned boardinghouse in Tehran.†   (source)
  • Winter swept down upon Tehran from the nearby mountains.†   (source)
  • Iranian-born writer AZAR NAFISI was fired from the University of Tehran for refusing to wear a veil.†   (source)
  • The car sped off into the bustle of Tehran's traffic.†   (source)
  • Why, out of all that might have happened, did it lead to a beheading in Tehran?†   (source)
  • "In order to get you out of Tehran we must buy some time from your husband," Amahl said.†   (source)
  • As if embarrassed to begin, he made courtly inquiries about their stay in Tehran.†   (source)
  • They ringed Tehran on all sides, turning the entire city into a trap.†   (source)
  • So they waited it out in Tehran, passing without momentum into a new year.†   (source)
  • I am waiting for him to return to Tehran.†   (source)
  • Flee, fly, fled, he thought as Oscar drove fast through wee-hour Tehran.†   (source)
  • Once in Tehran, Ellen found herself held hostage just as I was.†   (source)
  • Tehran took no official note of the day, which meant that it was school as usual for Mahtob.†   (source)
  • The western world's New Year's Day would go unnoticed in Tehran; tomorrow would be a normal day.†   (source)
  • The American Embassy was taken over in Tehran.†   (source)
  • In March of 1984 I received a telephone call from Tehran.†   (source)
  • Three times a day, every day, the call to prayer intrudes upon the lives of everyone in Tehran.†   (source)
  • Alice was impressed with my ability to negotiate my way around Tehran.†   (source)
  • He and Alice were now living in Tehran on a temporary basis in order to settle the estate.†   (source)
  • What if we couldn't get out of Tehran quickly?†   (source)
  • I did not want Moody to realize that an American woman could learn to find her way about Tehran.†   (source)
  • It was a smaller city than Tehran, and cleaner and fresher.†   (source)
  • It was a common type of balcony-and a common type of tragedy-in Tehran.†   (source)
  • He also taught at the University of Theology in Tehran.†   (source)
  • Planning to kidnap Mahtob and take her away to Tehran?†   (source)
  • When I was living in Shustar and my father was here in Tehran, I got a bad feeling one day.†   (source)
  • Shaflee's house in the Geisha district of Tehran to present the pistachios to his son Reza.†   (source)
  • If only I had acted upon my fears earlier, before we had boarded the flight to Tehran.†   (source)
  • Upon our return to Tehran, Moody learned that he had landed the hospital job.†   (source)
  • With Mahtob at school by herself, with Moody at work, I could go wherever I pleased in Tehran.†   (source)
  • Then I let the pieces of my I.U.D. drift into the streets of Tehran.†   (source)
  • Finally, I told her that I was calling from Tehran.†   (source)
  • It is too risky to try to hide the two of you inside Tehran until we finalize the details.†   (source)
  • These were legitimate excuses in a city as crowded as Tehran.†   (source)
  • Students in Tehran had staged a series of demonstrations against the government of the shah.†   (source)
  • Almost the first words out of his mouth were: "You must come visit us in Tehran.†   (source)
  • Moody booked passage for me on a Swissair flight leaving Tehran on Friday, January 31.†   (source)
  • To me it was a ghastly reminder of the perils of our lives in Tehran.†   (source)
  • There was nowhere to flee but the streets of Tehran.†   (source)
  • But don't worry, I'm not going to leave you in Tehran.†   (source)
  • In Tehran that night, as many as fourteen million voices were raised as one.†   (source)
  • Passengers continuing on to Tehran would remain on board.†   (source)
  • And there was the Park Mellatt that featured a Tehran rarity grass.†   (source)
  • The drive between Tehran and the Caspian Sea is one of the most beautiful stretches of land I have ever seen.†   (source)
  • During our stay in Newport Beach, the Iranian Revolution took place and a group of Americans were taken hostage in the American embassy in Tehran.†   (source)
  • In Tehran, he headed straight to the passport office and handed the administrator his identification booklet.†   (source)
  • As we headed north, toward Tehran, the weather cooled off slowly, proof that we were indeed farther and farther from our home.†   (source)
  • I remembered how much I admired Jane Fonda's nose when I was in fourth grade in Tehran, and how much I hated my own.†   (source)
  • As he was settling into his new job, a group of Americans in Tehran were taken hostage in the American embassy.†   (source)
  • During their annual visits, he and my mother stay at the former Sheraton in Tehran, a hotel they could have never afforded without a complete devaluation of Iranian currency.†   (source)
  • My father's five-day trip to Tehran turned into a twenty-five-day stay, during which he ran around frantically recounting his story to everyone, hoping that someone might know someone who might be able to expedite the process.†   (source)
  • The family's duplex in Tehran—with the marble on the walls and a marble exterior facade—seemed equally foreign.†   (source)
  • Where once Langley and the Office had worked handin-glove to sabotage Iran's nuclear ambitions, the United States, under the deal's provisions, was now sworn to protect what remained of Tehran's atomic infrastructure.†   (source)
  • He was born in Tehran, Iran, in 1965, the son of a successful ophthalmologist and a pediatrician who wanted better career opportunities for their children and themselves.†   (source)
  • Her book, Reading Lolita in Tehran, is based on the years she secretly taught literature to female students in her home.†   (source)
  • A smooth tar road that climbed out of Tehran, up a steep grade that finally leveled off on a plateau.†   (source)
  • Mandalay, Delhi, Tehran, and beyond?†   (source)
  • Down the depths of Tehran, running.†   (source)
  • They have much to see in Tehran.†   (source)
  • As it states here, initial inquiries at the United States embassy, Tehran, failed to produce verification that you travel under official auspices, either military or political.†   (source)
  • Swiftly, the truck took them through the streets of Tehran to a gray-stone jail where they were searched, fingerprinted, photographed, shaved, and then led to separate cells.†   (source)
  • Moody had told me that Tehran was famed for this impressive tower that stood like a sentinel on the outskirts of the city.†   (source)
  • She explained that on the streets of Tehran. when they were enforcing the dress code, the pasdar were merely nuisances.†   (source)
  • What's more, he and Mammal now spoke constantly about taking Mahtob and me to visit the family in Tehran.†   (source)
  • From the time we had left the safe house in Tehran, we had eaten only bread and sunflower seeds washed down with tea.†   (source)
  • If she was staying in Tehran only temporarily one month she had said why was she enrolled in Koran study classes here.†   (source)
  • We also wanted to take advantage of Tehran's comparatively low prices to purchase jewelry and carpets for ourselves.†   (source)
  • Quickly she blurted out the telephone number and address of the U.S. Interest Section of the Swiss Embassy in Tehran.†   (source)
  • As Tehran accustomed itself to the reality of war, civil defense authorities issued revised instructions.†   (source)
  • After bounding his car through the streets of Tehran for more than a half hour, the driver paused at the Australian Embassy on Park Avenue.†   (source)
  • On the first day of classes teachers all over Tehran led the children into the streets for a mass demonstration.†   (source)
  • You have to get me out of this house if we are going to get a new start and be able to make it in Tehran.†   (source)
  • I sent a brief note to Hamid, owner of the menswear store in Tehran, whose telephone was my point of contact with Helen, Amahl, and others.†   (source)
  • Despite the more comfortable life that had evolved for us in Tehran, I knew in my heart that he would be happy to have me out of the way.†   (source)
  • I thought, the war has come to Tehran.†   (source)
  • And so will I. Despite the confidence of his words, I still had to leave him, go back out into the streets of Tehran, go back to my husband.†   (source)
  • Soon everyone returned to the car, and once again we were speeding farther away from Tehran, closer to the border.†   (source)
  • Like Tehran on a smaller scale, Tabriz was a contrast of modern, high-rise architecture and rotting hovels.†   (source)
  • Through word-of-mouth reports, everyone in Tehran knew that dozens of people-perhaps hundreds-had been killed in the raid.†   (source)
  • It had taken us more than an hour to negotiate our way across Tehran through the snowstorm by orange taxi, changing several times.†   (source)
  • Helen did not believe so, for she had risked Moody's wrath to warn me of their presence in Tehran; but I was unsure.†   (source)
  • Soon a woman entered the barn, dressed in full Kurdish garb, so different from the colorless clothes of the women of Tehran.†   (source)
  • I have someone down in Bandar Abbas right now making arrangements and I expect him back in Tehran in a couple of days.†   (source)
  • Even Ameh Bozorg was a paragon of wisdom and cleanliness next to the people on the streets of Tehran.†   (source)
  • It was essential that we clear the airports in Tehran and Zahidan and reach the smuggling team before there was any official notice of our absence.†   (source)
  • Encouraged by his response, I said, "I finally have accepted the idea that we are going to live in Tehran, and I want to get our life started.†   (source)
  • Her husband had gone to fight in the war against Iraq, so she was staying temporarily with his family in Tehran.†   (source)
  • That afternoon I left the relative safety of Amahl's apartment for the icy and dangerous streets of Tehran.†   (source)
  • Three years in Corpus Christi, two in Alpena, and one in Detroit followed before he again upset his life by moving us to Tehran.†   (source)
  • Hormoz assured her that if she was unhappy in Tehran, she and the children could return to America anytime she wished.†   (source)
  • Moody was delighted to learn that Chamsey's husband was a surgeon at one of Tehran's few private hospitals.†   (source)
  • At the time I could only imagine how dismal life in Tehran must be, but I had to take the chance that two weeks there would be enough for Moody.†   (source)
  • He knew the outcome of the story, for six years later Ellen was still here in Tehran and obviously committed to life in her husband's country.†   (source)
  • Even in the anonymity of the chad or I felt naked on the streets of Tehran as I walked back to the apartment.†   (source)
  • Chilled mornings in the inadequately heated apartment warned that Tehran's winter would be as bitter as its summer was scorching.†   (source)
  • After a few moments of indecision, Moody must have realized that Aga Hakim was right, that this would help acclimate me to life in Tehran.†   (source)
  • Without those vital documents we could not travel outside of Tehran, even if we managed to escape from the house.†   (source)
  • Both the altitude of Tehran and the metric units on the oven controls played havoc with my baking abilities.†   (source)
  • Their home in Niavaran, an elegant section of northern Tehran, was modern and spacious, but nearly devoid of furniture.†   (source)
  • Confusion reigned in downtown Tehran.†   (source)
  • The fact that the youngest "child," Fereshteh, was preparing to start classes at the University of Tehran apparently made no difference.†   (source)
  • Tehran's large population of Armenians always makes a joyous celebration out of the Christian holiday, but this year they received an ominous warning.†   (source)
  • "When Chamsey arrived at her father's home in Tehran, she discovered that he was due to enter the hospital the following day for routine tests.†   (source)
  • Yes, I could find my way around Tehran, which was a step closer to finding my way out of the city and the country altogether.†   (source)
  • Doctors in Tehran had diagnosed a stomach ulcer and performed surgery, but he had continued to weaken.†   (source)
  • Whole villages had been devastated by economic collapse; their residents fled to Tehran in search of food and shelter.†   (source)
  • As Hossein steered the car off the expressway, I studied the women who scurried along the teeming sidewalks of Tehran.†   (source)
  • No-ruz continued during its second week with what was termed a "holiday" along the shores of the Caspian Sea, which sits due north of Tehran and forms a portion of the Iranian-Russian border.†   (source)
  • But now that the students of Tehran University had committed an act of war against the United States, Moody encountered the reality of personal danger.†   (source)
  • As he strode to the door, I leapt from the bed and ran after him, ready to fly through the streets of Tehran in my nightclothes if it would bring me to my daughter.†   (source)
  • Over the course of the next few weeks, as Mahtob was in school and Moody was busy working, I scampered about Tehran with the energy and vitality of a schoolgirl.†   (source)
  • As we waited at Heathrow airport, shortly before our flight to Cyprus and Tehran, Moody struck up a conversation with an Iranian doctor, returning home from a visit to America.†   (source)
  • Helen Balassanian still works at the U.S. Interest Section of the Swiss Embassy in Tehran, doing what she can to help others in situations similar to mine.†   (source)
  • It was the responsibility of the smuggling team to get us from Tehran to the border, across into Turkey via a Red Cross ambulance, and finally to the city of Van, in the mountains of eastern Turkey.†   (source)
  • It was situated farther to the north of Tehran, where all the homes tended to be newer and fresher, and it was only about a fifteen-minute taxi ride from the hospital.†   (source)
  • Rats are a fact of life in Tehran.†   (source)
  • It was almost impossible to find coffee in Tehran, yet here was a steaming cup from a ramshackle restaurant in the midst of the forbidding countryside.†   (source)
  • Helen and Mr. Vincop at the embassy had stressed that the real snag in that first scenario was the possibility of having to hide away from Moody, and perhaps the police, while remaining in Tehran.†   (source)
  • Mahtob and I would fly from Tehran to Zahidan on the nine A.M. flight, link up with a team of professional smugglers, and cross the rugged mountains into Pakistan.†   (source)
  • They were willing and grateful students of English and, for my part, I realized that every word of Farsi I learned had the potential of helping me find a way around-and out of Tehran.†   (source)
  • My stomach churned when Mahtob and I found ourselves back on the streets of Tehran, with nowhere to go but to a husband and father who had assumed the role of our all-powerful jailer.†   (source)
  • He responded for a time with vigor and joy, finally succumbing to his cancer on August 3, 1986 two years to the day after Mahtob and I arrived in Tehran.†   (source)
  • I knew that if I could convince him, little by little, that I was adjusting to life in Tehran, he would eventually find it too bothersome to accompany me on "women's" errands.†   (source)
  • Dr. Mojallali had been Moody's close friend in Corpus Christi until shortly after the takeover of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran, he and Moody had abruptly ended their association.†   (source)
  • Sirens in Tehran are an ever-present fact of life, so common that drivers generally ignore them altogether, but these were louder and more insistent than usual.†   (source)
  • I knew of no other woman Iranian, American, or otherwise who risked the vicissitudes of regular excursions into Tehran without the protection of a man or at least another adult woman companion.†   (source)
  • Mammal remained with us until mid-July, and as the day of his departure approached, he became more and more insistent that we Moody, Mahtob, and I visit the family in Tehran.†   (source)
  • Through tears of relief she explained that last night my sister Carolyn had called to speak with me in Tehran and Moody had informed her angrily that we were gone and he did not know where we were.†   (source)
  • The image of her alone on the crowded streets of Tehran, with its careering traffic and careless drivers, with its heartless, vicious, suspicious police, was painful.†   (source)
  • He rarely wrote to his relatives, even to his sister Ameh Bozorg, who had moved from Khorramshahr to Tehran, and this lack of family contact saddened me a bit.†   (source)
  • You must leave Tehran by car.†   (source)
  • Normally, Chamsey lived only two months of the year in her lovely home near our new apartment, but she planned on remaining in Tehran a bit longer than usual on this particular visit because she and her husband were selling the home, transferring what they could of their assets to California.†   (source)
  • One evening we went to the home of Akram Hakim the mother of Jamal, Moody's "nephew" who-so many years ago-had met us for breakfast in an Austin hotel and broke the news of the takeover of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran Hakim's niece was there, and she was visibly upset.†   (source)
  • Darkness settled over Tehran.†   (source)
  • Had he been born into a lowly family, Moody might have spent his life like Tehran's uncounted indigents, existing in a tiny makeshift hut constructed of scavenged building materials, reduced to begging for odd jobs and handouts.†   (source)
  • He pulled out a map and showed me the route we would travel, a long, difficult drive from Tehran to Tabriz, then farther up into the mountain country controlled as much by Kurdish rebels as by the patrolling pasdar.†   (source)
  • Moody boasted that this was an affluent neighborhood on the northern side of Tehran; his sister's house was just two doors away from the Chinese Embassy. it was screened from the street by a large fence crafted of green iron bars set together closely.†   (source)
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