Word: banisadre
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...first Iranian President Abolhassan Banisadr promised that the bodies would quickly be returned to the U.S. As middleman he designated Ilarion Capucci, a Greek Melchite Catholic archbishop and longtime ally of the Palestine Liberation Organization. Then the Ayatullah Seyyed Mohammed Beheshti, president of the National Supreme Court and a leading political rival of Banisadr's, stepped in and insisted that only the Revolutionary Council or the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini could release the bodies. Beheshti ordered them transferred to the Tehran morgue, which falls under his jurisdiction. The militants who were guarding the U.S. embassy announced that an undisclosed number...
Thus, in a pointed message to Iran's President Abolhassan Banisadr, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher expressed her displeasure over the seizure of the Iranian embassy in London by Iranian Arab terrorists. Obviously she was also indirectly condemning the Tehran government for allowing Iranian militants to hold the American hostages for the past six months. The irony could hardly have been lost on the Iranians, who went to embarrassing lengths in an effort to establish a difference between the two embassy seizures. Touring the Persian Gulf, Iran's Foreign Minister Sadegh Ghotbzadeh said that the seizure...
...reaction of the Tehran government was an object lesson in the negligible value it places on the lives of its own people. President Banisadr announced that he was prepared to allow the hostages in London to be killed rather than accept the demands of the terrorists. Said he: "We are ready to accept the martyrdom of our children in England, but we will not give in to blackmail...
...wounded Americans were treated at West Germany's Ramstein Air Base, then flown back to the U.S. Following in due course, said President Abolhassan Banisadr, would be the bodies of the eight American servicemen, five from the Air Force and three from the Marine Corps...
...Tehran, Barbara Timm, who had journeyed there to see her hostage son, Marine Sergeant Kevin Hermening, snapped: "I'm angry that our President would do something so stupid." Accompanied by her husband to a press conference in the office of Iranian President Abolhassan Banisadr, she said, "We deeply regret" the U.S. rescue attempt, and offered "apologies" to the Iranian people. Then, as Banisadr smiled, she posed for cameramen under a portrait of the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, embraced her husband and broke into tears...