Word: banisadre
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...principal beneficiary has been Prime Minister Raja'i, a devout Muslim and dedicated Khomeini follower. His more secular, more moderate rival, President Abolhassan Banisadr, seems increasingly isolated. It was to Raja'i, not Banisadr, that President Carter addressed the first official U.S. response to the Majlis vote. And it was Raja'i who, in his fire-and-brimstone speech at the embassy compound, demanded that the U.S. publicly and promptly accept the conditions of the Majlis...
...year since the U.S. hostages were seized has brought some painfully memorable moments. Clockwise from top left: blindfolded American is paraded in Tehran after capture in November 1979; wrecked U.S. aircraft are abandoned in the Iranian desert after rescue attempt failed in April 1980; Iran's President Abolhassan Banisadr speaks beneath the visage of the Ayatullah Khomeini; Iranian militants burn a dummy of the Shah; flags fly in Hermitage, Pa., one for each day the hostages are held; militants bring Carter-in-effigy to his knees in the streets of Tehran; an Iranian militant stands guard at U.S. embassy...
...apprehensively recall that one of Reagan's advisers, Robert Tucker, a foreign policy specialist at Johns Hopkins University, sketched in Commentary in 1975 a hypothetical U.S. strategy for seizing the Arab oilfields. On the other side of the Persian Gulf, Iran's leaders are divided. President Abolhassan Banisadr's faction considers Carter preferable to Reagan, but Banisadr's clerical rivals contend that "both are tools of imperialism...
Long before the Iraqis invaded Iran on Sept. 22, leading Iranian moderates, including President Abolhassan Banisadr, had warned that holding the hostages was pushing Iran into dangerous diplomatic isolation. Khomeini appeared ready to seek a compromise in September when he announced a scaled-down set of conditions for the release. Though the 80-year-old Islamic revolutionary gave the Majlis final responsibility over the American captives, he suggested the following terms for their freedom: 1) return of the late Shah's wealth, 2) cancellation of all U.S. claims against Iran, 3) release of Iranian assets frozen...
...there was a sense in the area of American impotence, it was perhaps symbolized best by the fact that the two principals in the war have accused each other of acting as agents of "American imperialism." Iran's Banisadr claimed his government had purchased documents proving that Iraqi officials had plotted their surprise attack in consultation with pro-Shah Iranian exiles and Israeli and U.S. intelligence agents. A top State Department official wearily dismissed the accusation as nonsense. The chances were that interested parties would believe whatever they wanted to believe as they kept choosing up sides in this...