A week of conflicting signals ends in an Iranian standoff
"To prevent any misunderstanding, we declare that the Revolutionary Council should take the hostages, or the American spies, from us and do with them what they think best..."
With that surprising announcement, broadcast over Iranian television and radio, the militants at the U.S. embassy in Tehran last week declared that they were now willing to turn their 50 American hostages over to the ruling Revolutionary Council and newly elected President Abolhassan Banisadr. That was still a long way from saying that the hostages would...
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