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...motion on March 22, when Carter met with high-level advisers at Camp David. They concluded that Americans were losing patience with the stalemate over the 53 hostages and that this was jeopardizing the President's political future. Accordingly, Carter three days later sent a message to Banisadr through Marcus Kaiser, the Swiss charge in Tehran: Unless the Revolutionary Council took custody of the hostages by March 31the day before the Kansas and Wisconsin primariesthe U.S. would impose sanctions on Iran. Soon afterward, the governments of major European nations and Japan sent letters to Banisadr...
...Khomeini. Period." Pressed by reporters, Powell was even more explicit in saying that "no such message" had been sent by the President or any other U.S. official "to Khomeini or anyone else." Not until the Swiss disclosed that they had in fact delivered two notes from Carter to Banisadr did Powell admit that there had been messages. His original statement had been misleading, intentionally so, and he refused to clear up the confusion for two reasons. First, he did not want to endanger the Administration's still secret efforts to pressure the Revolutionary Council into taking control...
...Wisconsin and Kansas. Said an aide: "If we don't get any good news fast, it looks like we are going to lose." So, while the circumstances of the Villalón message were still blurred, Carter's advisers were relieved at indications from Tehran that Banisadr was succeeding in persuading the Revolutionary Council to take custody of the Americans...
...Tehran, Banisadr saw no signs that Carter's statements were meeting Iran's terms. Said Banisadr to Western reporters: "Those are not enough at all. A declaration having all the conditions that we asked for must be published." The following morning, however, Swiss Ambassador Eric Lang delivered a third message from Carter assuring Banisadr that the U.S. would not try to score propaganda points from transfer of the hostages. Said Banisadr to an aide: "It is what I wanted. I just hope somebody doesn't stick his foot in his mouth at the White House." To Banisadr...
...Despite Banisadr's hopes, however, the thing did not move. Armed with Carter's message, the Iranian President argued for five hours with his opponents on the Revolutionary Council, maintaining that he had received what amounted to a "formal and public" pledge from Carter and that the Council should now take control of the hostages. But Banisadr's clerical opponents, led by Council Secretary Seyyed Ayatullah Mohammed Beheshti, disagreed and carried the vote. After the session, Ghotbzadeh said that the Council wants "more information on the precise position of the United States...