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...joined in condemnations of the militants, acted as secret mediators with Tehran and voted in the U.N. Security Council for sanctions against Iran. Everyone was also in step when Washington decided to soften its policy toward Iran in the hopes of bolstering relatively moderate Iranian leaders like President Abolhassan Banisadr...
...French insist that it is also essential for Western officials to remain in Tehran to support Iranian moderates like Banisadr. The Italians feel that their diplomats in Iran are particularly useful because they supposedly have clout with Iranian radicals. Italy's President Alessandro Pertini supported persecuted Iranian students during the Shah's reign...
...Death to America!" shouted thousands of Iranians as they surrounded the weary but exhilarated diplomats and pelted them with flowers. All over Iran, millions of people marched in a display of national solidarity to protest what President Abolhassan Banisadr called the "conspiracies of the U.S. and Iraq's fascist government." At Tehran University, a crowd roared its approval of anti-American resolutions while chanting "God is great!" -raising fresh fears for the hostages trapped in the middle of the tumult. In Washington, where supporters of the hostages held candlelight vigils near the Iranian embassy, dozens of Iranian students demonstrated...
...Though Banisadr joined his countrymen in making radical, anti-American statements last week, he also let it be known that the U.S. had overlooked a concession made by Khomeini. While refusing to take control of the hostages, Khomeini said that they could have visitors "under the supervision of the authorities." The earlier restrictions he had put on visits wrecked the U.N. commission that was in Tehran to negotiate last month...
...France. Khomeini has neither forgotten nor forgiven that insult. Last week he openly urged Iraqis to "wake up and topple this corrupt regime in your Islamic country before it is too late." With comparably strong provocation against the Iraqi government, headed by President Saddam Hussein, Iranian President Abolhassan Banisadr said that Iran welcomed the opportunity of "liberating the people of Iraq from this puppet of Zionism and U.S. imperialism...