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After defending the Iranian revolution from the podium, Clark met privately with Iran's President Abolhassan Banisadr and went even further. The maverick U.S. lawyer said he had been persuaded to form a stateside commission to investigate alleged U.S. crimes against Iran. But Clark's initiative apparently did not strengthen his standing at the conference: the American delegation was unable to get a single reference to the hostages into the final resolution. Furthermore, Clark himself was denounced as a possible spy acting on Carter's behalf in the resolution, which accused him of plotting like a "latterday...
...archrivals of the Islamic regime -President Abolhassan Banisadr and Ayatullah Seyyed Mohammed Beheshti, leading member of the Revolutionary Council-were assigned adjacent seats in the front of the ornate red-and-gold chamber, the size of a movie theater. They scarcely looked at each other during the ceremony, which began with recitations from the Koran and a boys' choir chanting revolutionary songs. The ailing Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, 80, spiritual leader of Iran's revolution, did not attend; he dispatched his son, Seyyed Ahmed, to deliver his inaugural message, warning against "plotters" from either the U.S. or the Soviet...
...apparent to all that the parliament was coming into being at a time when Iran could hardly have faced graver problems: a dangerously deteriorating economy, mounting internal strife, and growing international isolation. In his own address, Banisadr emphasized Iran's dire economic predicament. Inflation is running at an annual rate of 50%. Unemployment has risen to a third of the work force. Exports of oil, which once totalled 6 million bbl. daily under the Shah, have slowed to 700,000. Moreover, half of Iran's foreign exchange reserve of $15 billion is frozen in U.S. banks at home...
...moderate President is on the defensive at home because of his determination to resolve the crisis surrounding the 53 American hostages, who have been held captive in Iran for seven months. Banisadr did not mention the issue, but eventually the elected assembly, which is dominated by the conservative clergy, will be taking up the hostages' fate. There was speculation late in the week that such a decision would not be forthcoming until late July...
More ambitious was an effort by Austrian Chancellor Bruno Kreisky, Swedish Social Democratic Party Leader Olof Palme and Spanish Socialist Workers Party Leader Felipe González, who flew to Iran to talk with Banisadr and other government officials on an ostensible "fact-finding" mission. Later, on his way home, Kreisky said that in regard to the hostages the group had made its "deep criticism clear...