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...revolution?" asked Amin Nasseri, an opponent of the bill. "Don't we say there is no difference between Carter and Reagan?" Hassan Ayat, an Islamic fundamentalist, raised a flurry of detailed questions in objecting to the pending agreement. The tart-tongued speaker, Hojatolislam Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, asked anyone who agreed with Ayat to stand up. No one did. Scoffed one supporter of the legislation: "This Mr. Ayat thinks he is the scholar of all the parliaments in the world. The things that he is talking about, all these small details, it means months and months...
...return of the Shah's fortune, the unfreezing of Iranian assets, cancellation of U.S. claims against Iran, and a pledge of noninterference. But a day later, as the Majlis considered appointing a commission to study the hostage issue, the speaker of the assembly, Muslim Hard-Liner Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, insisted that the U.S. apologize for its long support of the Shah...
...remarks predictably roused Iranian furies. "How brazen-faced can a man be?" fumed Hojatolislam Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, speaker of the Iranian parliament. "Not even the entire wealth of the U.S. is enough to compensate Iran for the crimes of the deposed Shah committed against our people under the protection of America." Yet the very intensity of such reactions indicated that Reagan's message may have hit home at a crucial juncture-a fact that in no way displeased the Carter Administration. Confessed a State Department official: "One is tempted to say, 'Right...
...Ahmed, emerged and went next door to a half-completed mosque, where he frequently holds court in a cushioned, blue-draped chair on a balcony. Other students were already gathered there, segregated by sex, according to strict Islamic tradition. They welcomed their leader by chanting "Allahu Akbar" (God is great) and holding aloft Khomeini portraits. One of the militants stepped forward and read a prepared text. The Majlis decision, it declared, "does not mean the end of the conflict with America. As our Imam has said, we shall fight against world-devouring America until...
Everything seemed set a week ago. Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, the speaker of the Majlis, was sure he had enough support to put the deal to a vote. Back in Washington even the most skeptical officials were optimistic. But they, like Rafsanjani himself, neglected to reckon with the ingenuity of Iran's diehards ?left-leaning Muslims and mullahs who opposed any compromise whatsoever with "the Great Satan America." On Thursday, the day set for the Majlis debate, about 70 deputies stayed home or refused to take their seats, preventing a quorum and thus blocking a vote...