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Related Quotations
| Page | Quote | Author | Date |
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| Sheldon Adelson | “What is there to negotiate about? What I would say is: listen, you see that desert out there? (...) So you pick up your cellphone and call someone is Nebraska and say OK, let one go and it doesn't hurt a soul, maybe a couple of rattlesnakes and scorpions or whatever and say: See? The next one is in the middle of Tehran” | Sheldon Adelson | 2013 |
| Sharmine Narwani | “My friend, an engineer — who I will not name for obvious reasons and who I will call ‘Kourosh’ for the purpose of this article — revealed to me in 2010 that he was approached by two “State Department employees” who offered him $250,000 to “do something very simple” during his upcoming trip to Tehran.” | Sharmine Narwani | 21 March 2019 |
Event
| Event | Date | Description |
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| Le Cercle/1978 (Tehran) | In August 1978 the Shah invited Le Cercle to Tehran |
Groups Headquartered Here
| Group | Date | Start | End | Description |
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| CIA/Near East and South Asia Division/Tehran Station | 1980 | The CIA's Station for activities in Iran, based under diplomatic cover at the US embassy in Tehran. While collaborating closely with the Shah's secret police, the activities have been conducted from abroad since the break in diplomatic relations in 1980. | ||
| Iran | Iran possesses the 4th largest oil reserves of any nation state. | |||
| Iran University of Science and Technology | 1929 | A research institution and university of engineering and science. | ||
| Press TV | 2 July 2007 | An Iranian English-speaking media channel notably banned from the UK and US | ||
| Sharif University of Technology | 1966 | Iran's leading institution for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. |
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