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...country's enormous economic problems, and Washington had hoped that his moderate supporters would win a majority in the new 270-member Majlis (National Assembly). But in the first round of elections, the biggest winner turned out to be the Islamic Republic Party, led by Ayatullah Mohammed Beheshti, who is Banisadr's main political opponent. Of the first 80 seats filled so far, the I.R.P. won 35, and Banisadr's supporters carried only 15. If that trend continues in runoff elections, to be held early next month, the I.R.P. is likely to emerge with the largest single...
...Court and an ayatullah-the highest spiritual title in the Shi'ite branch of Islam. He is, in the view of Western diplomats, an ambitious powerbroker who puts personal game above political and even religious scruples. And as head of the Islamic Republic Party, the Ayatullah Seyyed Mohammed Beheshti, 51, represents the most serious opposition within Iran to President Banisadr. Beheshti, says a senior civil servant in Tehran who knows both men well, "won't let Banisadr sit back and enjoy...
Their antagonism is based less on personality than on principle. Despite his Sorbonne education, Banisadr is a devout Muslim layman who believes that the answers to all of Iran's problems can be found in Islam. Despite his clerical robes and title, Beheshti is a wily political pragmatist who uses ideology as a means to power. Twenty years ago, Beheshti was a writer of religious texts for public schools in Iran. A university professor who knew him then recalls that "he never argued with anyone. He seemed to believe that everyone is right. " Beheshti has apparently retained that ability...
...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...
...responsibilities and resolves never again to interfere in our affairs." This was soon contradicted by Foreign Minister Sadegh Ghotbzadeh, who was in Athens on an official visit. There he declared that "our demands are legitimate and right, and the Shah must be extradited." And the Ayatullah Seyyed Mohammed Beheshti, First Secretary of Iran's ruling Revolutionary Council, indicated that Banisadr lacked authority to order the militants occupying the U.S. embassy to release the Americans. Such a move, maintained Beheshti, "would have to be approved by a majority of Iranians and by the students." As for the militants, they continued...