Word: bani
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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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...
...Islamic nations, like other countries, have both liberals and conservatives, democrats and dictators. The Islamic socialists of Iraq and Libya?not to mention Iranian moderates who want to see a parliamentary democracy established by their new constitution?look with disdain on a semifeudal monarchy like Saudi Arabia. Says Hussein Bani-Assadi, son-in-law of Iran's Prime Minister Mehdi Bazargan: "Ideologically, this revolution cannot support systems like Saudi Arabia's. Islam has no kings." The Saudis answer that they have an institution that serves the needs of their society: the majlis, where King Khalid and the major princes...