November 4 - Iran hostage crisis begins: 3,000 Iranian radicals, mostly students, invade the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and take 90 hostages (53 of whom are American).

The aide added that the Administration had received "several inputs" of information that indicated contacts were under way with Iranian radicals, not moderates.

Iranian radicals have called for those Arabs who went to Madrid to be given "the death sentence."

Iranian radicals have waged a fierce campaign to close a Coca Cola factory, which opened here in September 1992 for the first time since the 1979 Islamic revolution.

Ghorbanifar had reported on March 17, 1984, that an Iranian radical,Mehdi Karrubbi, was plotting to assassinate President Reagan.

Delay, they insist, would show irresolution and would embolden Iranian radicals.

Saddam, however, made moderate noises and performed the noble task of keeping Iranian radicals busy on the battlefield.

American oil companies (fearful of the knock-on effects to themselves in the Middle East if Iranian radicals were seen to succeed) proved more enthusiastic allies than the State Department.

The hostages were seized in 1979 by Iranian radicals who wanted to disrupt relations between Iran's revolutionary government, then still in the hands of moderate reformers, and the United States.

And what would be the main source of that aid - Moscow, Vietnam, Arab or Iranian radicals?