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Despite the disappointment, the Administration found reason for some encouragement in the week's events. Along with Raja'i, Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini himself seemed ready to resolve the dilemma. The Ayatullah personally approved Iran's answer before it was transmitted to the U.S. by Algerian intermediaries. Muskie speculated that Khomeini's involvement signaled a "new phase" in the negotiations. Another hopeful sign seemed to lie in the fact that the Iranians were no longer talking in terms of a possible phased release of their captives, a notion the U.S. has flatly rejected...
...conservative mullahs and their Islamic Republic Party feel that they must demonstrate an ability to improve relations with foreign governments, an obviously difficult task so long as the hostages remain in Iran. Ironically, no one sounded more eager to send the Americans home last week than I.R.P. Leader Ayatullah Seyyed Mohammed Beheshti, who had previously been instrumental in prolonging the crisis. Said Beheshti: "The U.S. has to a large extent met our demands. There is now no basic catch in reaching a final solution...
...were indications that at least some answer to the U.S. proposals might be forthcoming. In an interview published at week's end in a Tehran newspaper, Nabavi said he is now readying new suggestions on how the U.S. might meet his country's demands. In recent weeks Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini has eased his obdurate attitude on the hostage question. Moderate President Abolhassan Banisadr, who is in favor of the hostages' release, seems to be gaining in visibility because of his handling of the war with Iraq. Indeed, as the valiant defense of the refinery city of Abadan...
...strongly believe that this time you will have the same Man of the Year as in 1979, the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini...
Along the bumpy roads leading from the Iraqi border to Khorramshahr, trees and broken telephone poles are strewn alongside the wreckage of burnt vehicles. At Khorramshahr's gutted railroad station, Iraqi soldiers use wall portraits of Ayatullah Khomeini for target practice. At the huge port sprawling along the Shatt al Arab, stacks of mammoth loading containers, stripped of their spoils by Iraqi invaders, are tangled with rusted steel pipes and charred, broken cranes. In makeshift barracks built under pylons, a few off-duty soldiers nap or thumb through magazines to pass the idle time...