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  1. Middle East expert on failed hostage rescue attempt (1980)

    Genre
    Interview

    Unidentified male Middle East expert on the failure of the US operation to rescue embassy staff being held hostage in Tehran. Eight people were killed in an explosion during the refuelling of one of the...

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  2. Kennedy and the Ayatollah (1979)

    Genre
    News report

    Report on a letter (or telegram) alleged by the Iranians to have been sent to the Ayatollah Khomeini by Senator Edward Kennedy, expressing support for the Islamic Revolution. Kennedy has denied any such...

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  3. US Embassy hostages helped by Canadian diplomats (1980)

    Genre
    News report

    Report on the escape of American hostages from Tehran. Up to 25 US Embassy officials were assisted by the Canadian Embassy and were given Canadian identities so that they could escape the country. Female...

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  4. Iran relations with Egypt (1979)

    Genre
    News report

    Unidentified reporter (from Iran?) observing that while the Shah remains in the USA, the Embassy hostage crisis will drag on. Iranian militants suspect a Zionist-imperialist conspiracy against Iran, but,...

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  5. 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...

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  6. Negotiations stalling between USA and Iran (1979)

    Genre
    News report

    The US Government does not know what to do to release the American hostages in Iran. The situation has been complicated by the resignation of the Iranian Prime Minister and the arrest of the US Charge...

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  7. US strategy to secure release of hostages in Tehran (1980)

    Genre
    Interview

    Unidentified male expert on international crisis management says crises between the USSR and USA are usually short-lived because the channels of communication are well used. In the case of the Iran hostage...

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  8. Iran embassy hostages (1979)

    Genre
    Interview

    2 interview clips, apparently consecutive, on a telephone conversation (by NBC?) with Bruce Laingen, US Charge d’Affaires, held hostage at the Iranian Foreign Ministry Office in Tehran; lack of...

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  9. Ayatollah Khomeini (1979)

    Genre
    Advertisement; Interview

    Two (apparently continuous) clips from LBC News Radio, in which Clark Todd? (in Iran) talks to Brian Hayes about the Ayatollah Khomeini’s success in becoming Iran’s ultimate authority; the enormous...

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  10. Louisa Kennedy on failed hostage rescue bid (1980)

    Genre
    Interview

    Louisa Kennedy, wife of Moorhead C. Kennedy Jr who is being held hostage at the US Embassy in Tehran, says she is surprised by the (unsuccessful) rescue attempt and is not in favour of military action. She...

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