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...Said Foreign Minister Sadegh Ghotbzadeh after one U.S. denial: "This runs the risk of destroying any faith the Iranians still have in what the American Government says or does." In both countries, the drama was complicated by presidential politics, with Carter fighting to win primaries and Iranian President Abolhassan Banisadr struggling to wrest control of the Revolutionary Council from conservative mullahs...
...Will you advise President Banisadr to call a referendum for the release of the hostages if the National Assembly temporizes...
...think the ex-Shah's move has hurt you and President Abolhassan Banisadr politically...
...assess your own political future? Will you be in President Banisadr's Cabinet...
Their antagonism is based less on personality than on principle. Despite his Sorbonne education, Banisadr is a devout Muslim layman who believes that the answers to all of Iran's problems can be found in Islam. Despite his clerical robes and title, Beheshti is a wily political pragmatist who uses ideology as a means to power. Twenty years ago, Beheshti was a writer of religious texts for public schools in Iran. A university professor who knew him then recalls that "he never argued with anyone. He seemed to believe that everyone is right. " Beheshti has apparently retained that ability...