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...elections have so far failed to give Banisadr a strong mandate...
...collaborating with the deposed Shah's regime except for "murderers, torturers and plunderers." That was good news to tens of thousands of technocrats, industrial managers, professional people and university professors who fled Iran after the overthrow of the Shah. Calling upon the exiles to return home, President Abolhassan Banisadr declared: "It is only here, and nowhere else, that you will find the opportunity to be perfect human beings " But the Ayatullah's ruling, welcome as it was to the exiles and to 70 political prisoners who were immediately released, had no effect on the status...
...current elections, whose final results will be known in early April, Banisadr's primary goal is to win a majority of seats in the new 270-member parliament against his principal clerical opposition, the Islamic Republic Party of the Ayatullah Mohammed Beheshti. If he succeeds, a settlement on the hostages may still be possible reasonably soon. Less extreme in his demands than the militants, Banisadr reached a tentative agreement with Washington under which the U.S. would confess to past offenses in Iran, promise not to interfere again, help Iran recover the funds removed by the Shah and refrain from...
...still armed with automatic rifles and Uzi submachine guns, and in their four months of prison duty have received intensive weapons training. As one Carter aide put it: "The President is as frustrated as anyone, but he's not going to lose his temper and pull a Mayaguez." Banisadr's view on the military option was similar. He and Ghotbzadeh considered ordering a surprise seizure of the embassy two weeks ago, but ruled it out as being prohibitively risky...
Some Congressmen have urged the White House to impose stronger economic sanctions against Iran. Washington is reluctant to do so because few of America's allies would go along with an embargo, and such a move would push Banisadr closer to Moscow.* As he has made abundantly clear, Iran's new President is no friend of America's, but he remains the best hope for a stable, non-aligned government in a country that the U.S. can ill afford to let fall into the Soviet orbit...