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...Raja'i told a New York press conference that the U.S. now appeared "ready to cooperate" on resolving the issue. He later said he expected the Majlis to agree that Khomeini's four demands were sufficient and was "certain" that Washington would accept them. Majlis Speaker Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani fueled hopes by predicting the speedy liberation of the hostages and minimizing the possibility that any would be tried as spies. Hojatolislam Ashgar Mousavi Khoeiny, a member of the parliamentary committee set up to propose conditions for the hostages' release, said the Americans might be freed early...
...days later, the irrepressible Vinogradov got a similar lecture from the speaker of the Majlis, Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani. As the two men entered the parliament building in downtown Tehran, Iraqi Soviet-built MiG-23 fighters roared overhead. "What is it we hear?" asked Vinogradov. "Your own MiGs," retorted Rafsanjani. Rafsanjani then told Vinogradov that Soviet friendship overtures would get nowhere so long as Moscow supported Baghdad and the puppet regime in Afghanistan. TIME has learned that the Iranians believe Moscow knew of the Iraqi attack beforehand, and did not inform Tehran because it saw an opportunity to widen...
Roger Rosenblatt's essay "The Wars of Assassination" [Sept. 8] pinpointed the reason assassins and assassin countries escape punishment for their dastardly crimes: lack of outrage and resolve on the world, national and individual levels. The slain Ali Akbar Tabatabai was a cultured, pro-Western and democratic man-a human being of excellence and compassion...
...Tehran, Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, speaker of the Majlis, seemed to be correcting the Ayatullah's omission by flatly declaring: "The U.S. must condemn its past crimes against the people of Iran." President Carter, just as flatly, responded: "The U.S. is not going to apologize." But Carter added that he had no objection to the Iranians airing their grievances at a legitimate forum, such as might be provided by the U.N. Last week President Abolhassan Banisadr revealed that the U.S. had again proposed such an inquiry. In addition, word leaked out that the State Department has been putting together...
...conference was held in the majestic 705-year-old imperial Hofburg Palace, but the atmosphere was anything but stately. At times the discussions were overshadowed by the bitter border dispute between Iran and Iraq, both OPEC members. And at one point the Iranian Oil Minister, Ali Akbar Moinfar, accused the Saudis of catering to "Western imperialists." Said one Iranian delegate after two days of bickering: "This thing is going to blow sky-high...