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...from Washington. Relations with Tehran took another turn for the worse last week when the Iranian government announced it would not accept U.S. Ambassador-designate Walter L. Cutler. Iranian officials insisted that the decision to reject Cutler was an attempt by Foreign Minister Ibrahim Yazdi to moderate the virulent anti-American campaign sweeping the country. Yazdi reportedly felt that Cutler's appointment would exacerbate ill feelings between the two governments...
After Yazdi's "softening and courageous statement," as one specialist termed it, officials in Washington were confident that good relations were still possible with the government of Prime Minister Mehdi Bazargan. They also took heart from the fact that many of the anti-American demonstrators in Tehran last week carried placards that denounced the Soviet Union with a vitriol almost equal to that aimed...
Anxious to replace the Korean War armistice with a solid peace treaty that would get U.S. troops out of South Korea, the government is now renewing efforts for a dialogue with Washington. Accordingly, earlier anti-American hostility has faded considerably. The radio is alive, improbably, with the music of Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald. And none of the U.S. visitors encountered any disagreeable incidents. The toddler who spat at me when I took his picture apparently was too young to have got the new line straight...
...Anti-American violence has been steadily on the rise in Iran. Last December, an Iranian policeman died while security forces attempted to disperse a mob of demonstrators at the embassy's gates. Just before New Year's Day, dissidents attempted to crash into the compound; they were chased away by tear-gas-firing Marines. Nevertheless, the force of 19 lightly armed Marines at the compound had not been beefed...
WASHINGTON--The Carter administration announced yesterday that it will conduct normal diplomatic relations with the new government in Iran and criticized the Soviet Union for spreading anti-American propaganda in that nation...