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US freezes Iranian investments (1979)
- Genre
- News report; Speech
US President Jimmy Carter has frozen Iranian assets in the USA. In order to do so, a national emergency was declared. But many Iranian assets are in banks overseas and not all states will want to comply with...
Anti-Iranian protests in the USA (1979)
- Genre
- News report; Press conference
Report on the alleged shooting of a trouble-making American student by an Iranian student in the USA. The authorities want to play the incident down in case it endangers the diplomats being held hostage in...
United States rejects three-point Iranian proposal (1979)
- Genre
- News report
The US State Department is studying a three-point Iranian proposal. Iran wants the US to declare the Shah a criminal, set up an international committee to investigate the Shah’s crimes, and to return the...
Iranians angered by US freezing of assets (1979)
- Genre
- News report; Press conference
The freezing of Iranian assets in the USA has enraged Iranians. US Treasury Secretary, G William Miller says the decision was not taken to put hostages in difficulty. US State Department spokesman Hodding...
President Carter warns against Iranian trial of diplomats (1979)
- Genre
- News report
The first group of American diplomats held hostage in Iran has been released, but US President, Jimmy Carter has warned that if Iran wants to put the remaining hostages on show trial, it will be a violation...
US Embassy in Islamabad attacked (1979)
- Genre
- News report; Press conference
A report claiming the USA had bombed a temple in Mecca has led to a riot at the US Embassy in Islamabad, during which a US marine was shot. US State Department spokesman Hodding Carter III denies rumours of...
Iranian crisis overshadowed by embassy attack in Pakistan (1979)
- Genre
- News report
Demonstrators in Pakistan decided to take over the US Embassy after Iran’s Ayatollah Khomeini issued a statement saying an attack on Mecca had been the Americans’ fault. The Saudi Arabian Ambassador in...
UN Security Council to discuss Iranian crisis, as Shah packs bags (1979)
- Genre
- News report; Speech
US President, Jimmy Carter has changed his mind over the meeting of the UN Security Council. He is betting that the UN will condemn Iran, but Iran wants to expose the Shah’s regime and his link to...
UN meeting starts without Iranian Foreign Minister (1979)
- Genre
- News report
The UN Security Council is waiting for Iranian Foreign Minister, Abolhassan Banisadr to arrive in New York. It has been decided that the debate can go ahead without him, but the Ayatollah Khomeini has said...
UN begins debate without Iranian Foreign Minister (1979)
- Genre
- News report; Speech
The UN Security Council has slowly begun to debate the Iranian crisis in the absence of the Iranian Foreign Minister. The spokesman for the Iranian delegation, Said Sanjabi(?) says the delay in his arrival...