Word: bani-sadr
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Dates: during 1979-1979
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Undaunted, Banisadr organized a pro-government rally at a soccer stadium. Carrying Khomeini posters, some 4,000 people-hardly a crowd by Iranian standards-gathered in the middle of the field. Suddenly, they were charged by some 2,000 Azerbaijanis waving Sharietmadari posters and chanting "Down with Bani-sadr!" Gradually, a phalanx of Khomeini supporters drove the Sharietmadari forces out of the stadium...
...Akbar Moinfar, 46, is a Japanese-trained seismologist who is now Iran's acting Oil Minister. Though no zealot, Moinfar shares Bani-sadr's enthusiasm for economic self-sufficiency...
Journalists shook their heads in confusion at this latest twist in Iranian press relations. "They're either tossing you out or giving you lunch," mused one. But Bani-sadr's pitch for newspaper diplomacy underlined the crucial and delicate role the press is playing in the confrontation...
Although the followers of the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini refuse to negotiate with the United States about the release of the hostages, the foreign minister of Iran, Abolhassan Bani-Sadr plans to come to the United States later this week...