Word: banisadre
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Despite the offer of support from Libya, Iran was clearly worried about its diplomatic isolation. In a televised address to his people, President Abolhassan Banisadr complained, with mournful hyperbole, "This is the first time in history that a country is being attacked and is supported by no one in the world. It is total isolation and it should make us think. We have to realize that our words and our slogans satisfy...
...Iranians, though, were apparently resisting discreet Soviet blandishments. According to high Iranian officials, Moscow's lobbying began early in the war. The Soviet Ambassador to Iran, Vladimir Vinogradov, called on Banisadr and assured him that Moscow was opposed to Iraq's invasion. To convince the skeptical Iranian President, he gave Banisadr a transcript of talks held in Moscow the day before between Tariq Aziz, Iraq's deputy Prime Minister, and Boris Ponomarev, a secretary of the Soviet Communist Party. In the discussion, Ponomarev told Aziz that Moscow did not endorse the Iraqi invasion and demanded an immediate...
...share with Iran in a 1975 agreement with the Shah. Perhaps for that reason, President Saddam Hussein not only responded favorably to a U.N. Security Council vote calling for an end to hostilities, but also issued his own "unilateral" offer of a four-day ceasefire. Iranian President Abolhassan Banisadr replied to the U.N. plea with a scornful insistence that his country would not consider a cease-fire "so long as Iraq is in violation of our territorial sovereignty." A peace-seeking effort by Pakistan President Mohammed Zia ul-Haq, who had been dispatched to the two capitals...
...superpowers. Responding to Saudi Arabia's fears of possible spillover attacks against Middle East oilfields, the U.S. lent Riyadh four AWAC (Airborne Warning and Control System) electronic-surveillance planes. Mindful that Iran might misinterpret the gesture as an act of pro-Iraqi collusion, Muskie wrote a letter to Banisadr re-emphasizing U.S. neutrality. Indeed, Iran promptly denounced the action as "provocative." As usual, it did not help the hostage problem. Iran's parliament, the Majlis, put a seven-member commission of hard-liners in charge of the hostage question and also voted unanimously against any hostage negotiations...
...midweek 47,000 reservists had reported for duty in response to President Banisadr's call-up of the class of 1977-78. In cars and pickup trucks and on motorbikes, thousands of small armed militia groups "headed toward the front. Civilians organized convoys of food, clothing, medicine and fuel. As each newly formed battalion set off, townspeople showered it with flowers and made it pass under a copy of the Holy Koran -a Persian tradition aimed at exorcising evil. With stoic fatalism the young bride of a soldier who had just left for the fighting remarked: "Life...