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...Mujahedin who are believed to have masterminded the escape of former President Abolhassan Banisadr, whom they supported, after he had been deposed by the government. Banisadr is now thought to be hiding in the Kurdish region in northwestern Iran...
...Islam, what crimes they commit in your name! -Abolhassan Banisadr...
They were howling in the streets of Tehran in January 1980, during the revolution that placed him in office, and last This week the time, mobs were however, on the President march again. Abolhassan Banisadr was the target of their wrath. While demonstrators cried, "Death to the second Shah!" the Iranian parliament, dominated by Muslim fundamentalists, voted by an overwhelming majority to impeach Banisadr for "incompetence." His fate is now up to the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini. Meanwhile, as his own supporters met the mobs in bloody combat, Banisadr dropped out of sight, and border and airport police were...
...side stood the clergy-dominated Islamic Republican Party (I.R.P.), which had rabidly supported the taking of the hostages yet ultimately negotiated their release with the nation they called "the Great Satan." On the other side were the moderate supporters of President Abolhassan Banisadr, who had long called for an end to the crisis but now denounced the deal with Washington as a humiliating national sellout. In the wings lingered Iran's pro-Moscow Communists, temporarily in league with the right-wing mullahs but waiting for economic and political chaos to make the country ripe for a Soviet-sponsored takeover...
...financial drama that concluded last week. On Nov. 14,1979, ten days after the Americans were taken prisoner, then Treasury Secretary G. William Miller was awakened in his Washington home at 5 a.m. by a call from a State Department duty officer, informing him that then Iranian Finance Minister Abolhassan Banisadr was threatening to withdraw all of his country's deposits from U.S. banks and place them in financial institutions in other countries. The Iranians were hoping that this move would drive down the value of the dollar...