The World - News from Aug. 6, 1987
Iranian Revolutionary Guards planned to kidnap former National Security Adviser Robert C. McFarlane and Lt. Col. Oliver L. North when they visited Tehran last year, the West German magazine Stern reported. Stern said its unnamed source was a former commander in the Revolutionary Guards. The source said that his group--opposed to Parliament Speaker Hashemi Rafsanjani because it suspected him of being sympathetic to the United States--had intended to abduct the two men while they were trying to negotiate an arms deal in return for the release of U.S. hostages in Lebanon. But the plan was dropped, Stern said, when the group decided that Iran’s leader, the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, supported the arms deal.
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