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Khalkhali's efforts have drawn criticism from some political parties in Tehran, but his ferocity has won him wide popularity. It has enhanced his already considerable political power as a leader of the militant clerical faction of parliament that often opposes the moderate government of President Abolhassan Banisadr...
Though Khomeini cited no names, he was clearly alarmed by the bitter power struggle between moderate President Abolhassan Banisadr and hard-lining Ayatullah Seyyed Mohammed Beheshti, the leader of the clergy-dominated Islamic Republic Party. Behind their personal rivalry lay opposed visions of government: Beheshti and his fundamentalist allies seek total power in a single-party theocratic state. Banisadr and fellow moderates like Foreign Minister Sadegh Ghotbzadeh want a modern, pragmatic government within an Islamic revolutionary framework; they are especially eager to shore up an economy reeling under 50% inflation, 30% unemployment and drastically declining oil production...
After defending the Iranian revolution from the podium, Clark met privately with Iran's President Abolhassan Banisadr and went even further. The maverick U.S. lawyer said he had been persuaded to form a stateside commission to investigate alleged U.S. crimes against Iran. But Clark's initiative apparently did not strengthen his standing at the conference: the American delegation was unable to get a single reference to the hostages into the final resolution. Furthermore, Clark himself was denounced as a possible spy acting on Carter's behalf in the resolution, which accused him of plotting like a "latterday...
...archrivals of the Islamic regime -President Abolhassan Banisadr and Ayatullah Seyyed Mohammed Beheshti, leading member of the Revolutionary Council-were assigned adjacent seats in the front of the ornate red-and-gold chamber, the size of a movie theater. They scarcely looked at each other during the ceremony, which began with recitations from the Koran and a boys' choir chanting revolutionary songs. The ailing Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, 80, spiritual leader of Iran's revolution, did not attend; he dispatched his son, Seyyed Ahmed, to deliver his inaugural message, warning against "plotters" from either the U.S. or the Soviet...
...Abolhassan Bani-Sadr? Ayatollah Shariat-Madari...