General for trial
A former commander of the Iranian Air Force will go on trial in Teheran shortly charged with helping American commandos try to rescue the American hostages last year, according to a senior Iranian official. Major-General Amir Bahman Baqeri, Air Force chief during the first five months of the hostage drama, has been accused of ordering the removal of Iranian anti-air-craft guns one day before an
American commando force landed in the east Iranian desert on April 24 last year. General Baqeri was also suspected of destroyed evidence by ordering the blowing up of intact American helicopters left in the Iranian desert when the United States aborted the raid. ■— Teheran.
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Press, 28 October 1981, Page 8
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