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Though Khomeini cited no names, he was clearly alarmed by the bitter power struggle between moderate President Abolhassan Banisadr and hard-lining Ayatullah Seyyed Mohammed Beheshti, the leader of the clergy-dominated Islamic Republic Party. Behind their personal rivalry lay opposed visions of government: Beheshti and his fundamentalist allies seek total power in a single-party theocratic state. Banisadr and fellow moderates like Foreign Minister Sadegh Ghotbzadeh want a modern, pragmatic government within an Islamic revolutionary framework; they are especially eager to shore up an economy reeling under 50% inflation, 30% unemployment and drastically declining oil production...
...archrivals of the Islamic regime -President Abolhassan Banisadr and Ayatullah Seyyed Mohammed Beheshti, leading member of the Revolutionary Council-were assigned adjacent seats in the front of the ornate red-and-gold chamber, the size of a movie theater. They scarcely looked at each other during the ceremony, which began with recitations from the Koran and a boys' choir chanting revolutionary songs. The ailing Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, 80, spiritual leader of Iran's revolution, did not attend; he dispatched his son, Seyyed Ahmed, to deliver his inaugural message, warning against "plotters" from either the U.S. or the Soviet...
...Ayatullah Seyyed Mohammed Beheshti, the ranking member of the ruling Revolutionary Council, Banisadr's clerical rivals won at least 130 of 270 parliamentary seats in the May 9 voting, the results of which were announced only last week. Banisadr's supporters gained a mere 41 seats, while an assortment of independent mullahs, liberal democrats and nationalists won 71. Undecided are 28 seats, which mostly belong to two provinces-Kurdistan and Khuzistan-torn by civil war and political unrest...
...Beheshti and his clerical comrades on the Revolutionary Council correctly read Khomeini's mood and blocked the President's attempts to appoint a Prime Minister. Declared Beheshti haughtily: "The difficulty is that once a Prime Minister is approved by the Imam, then the Majlis [National Assembly] won't be able to vote freely on his appointment." Adding to his humiliation, Banisadr last week lost a lesser battle against Ayatullah Sadegh Khalkhali, an Islamic judge who had sentenced more than 100 Kurdish rebels and officials of the Pahlavi regime to death. When Banisadr denied Khalkhali's right...
...fruit." Foreign Minister Sadegh Ghotbzadeh insisted, as before, that the London incident was a "terrorist act," while the seizure of the American embassy in Tehran was "a legitimate outcry against 25 years of oppression." Even more bluntly, one of the Revolutionary Council's leading zealots, Ayatullah Seyyed Mohammed Beheshti, told a journalist who asked if the London incident could lead to a settlement of the Tehran crisis: "If you think that, it is your first mistake...