Word: banisadr
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...remained Foreign Minister, said Banisadr, he would not have boycotted the U.N. Security Council debate but would have shown up with a pile of documents to make Iran's case against the U.S. and the Shah. Said he: "My idea was to open the file of the Shah's regime to the inspection of the whole world as a documented case of the consequences of American domination...
Even before that vote, however, Khomeini made it clear once again who was in charge. The victim this time was Foreign Minister Abol Hassan Banisadr, the bushy-mustached economist who had been in office just 18 days, and who had seemed to be relatively moderate, or at least flexible. He had tried to attend the U.N. debate. Said he: "We want to demonstrate how the U.S. ruled our nation during the Shah's regime." Despite such rhetoric, U.S. officials hoped that private talks in New York might make some progress. Banisadr also opposed any trial of the U.S. hostages...
Still, no matter how intransigent Ghotbzadeh's rhetoric, his problem is the same one faced by Banisadr: the great gulf between Khomeini's determination to get the Shah and Jimmy Carter's refusal to hand him over. Moreover, Ghotbzadeh's task is complicated by the absence now of almost any moderating force in the country that could help build diplomatic bridges between Tehran and Washington. To stay out of trouble with the all-powerful Khomeini, most of the moderates are lying low. Asked three tunes at a news conference about the National Front, which for a time was Iran...
...East Bureau Chief Bruce van Voorst when he received a telephone call that normally would have gone to the Foreign Ministry. It was the Iranian charge d'affaires in Washington asking if he should attend the prospective U.N. Security Council meeting. "You will not attend, [Acting Foreign Minister] Banisadr will not attend, Iran will not be represented unless they postpone the session," Ghotbzadeh said brusquely, then added: "They can do what the hell they want...
...instructed the Chase to transfer the needed funds from an Iranian account in New York to Chase's London branch where the interest was owed, but that the U.S.'s freezing of its assets had prevented the transfer. Asserted an official bank statement released in London (before Banisadr contradicted it): "There is no intention on the part of the Iranian government not to meet its international financial obligations...