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...collaborating with the deposed Shah's regime except for "murderers, torturers and plunderers." That was good news to tens of thousands of technocrats, industrial managers, professional people and university professors who fled Iran after the overthrow of the Shah. Calling upon the exiles to return home, President Abolhassan Banisadr declared: "It is only here, and nowhere else, that you will find the opportunity to be perfect human beings " But the Ayatullah's ruling, welcome as it was to the exiles and to 70 political prisoners who were immediately released, had no effect on the status...
There are, it now appears, two sets of hostages in Tehran. One consists of the 50 Americans who have been held prisoner at the U.S. embassy by Iranian student militants for 4½ months. The other is the fledgling government of President Abolhassan Banisadr. Ending an intense battle of wills between the militants and the government over the fate of the hostages, the ailing spiritual leader of Iran's revolution, Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, decreed last week that a five-member United Nations commission could see the American hostages only after it first published a report on the crimes...
With that surprising announcement, broadcast over Iranian television and radio, the militants at the U.S. embassy in Tehran last week declared that they were now willing to turn their 50 American hostages over to the ruling Revolutionary Council and newly elected President Abolhassan Banisadr. That was still a long way from saying that the hostages would be released immediately, though it sounded like the best news the U.S. had heard from Tehran since the hostages were seized more than four months ago. But the Carter Administration reacted to the announcement with extreme caution-and, as it turned out, the caution...
Those expectations appeared to be dashed when President Abolhassan Banisadr said that the two issues were not related. Then last week the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini announced that the hostages' release would have to be decided by the country's new Majlis (National Assembly), which will be elected later this month and convene on April 7. At week's end the militants apparently agreed that the U.N. commission members would be able to meet the hostages-but when and under what circumstances were not clear...
...York seemed confident that the release was part of a package deal, definitely linked to the formation of the U.N. commission. The only uncertainty, it seemed, was whether the release would come when the U.N. commission was formed or after it finished its work. Iran's new President, Abolhassan Banisadr, appeared to have agreed to such a deal; but when he was asked to say so in writing, he denied that there was any connection at all between the U.N. hearings and the release of the hostages. Some optimistic officials in Washington and at the U.N. insisted that such...