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...parliament to defend the government's handling of the negotiations. Iran's problems, he asserted, resulted from its revolutionary upheavals and not from the hostage crisis. No other regime, he said, "could have obtained from the United States more than this government has." Chief Hostage Negotiator Behzad Nabavi later conceded that Tehran got much less than the $24 billion it had originally demanded, but added somewhat lamely: "We should avoid looking at the issue through a trader's eyes. Our political gains were far greater...
Nearly four hours later, Behzad Nabavi, Iran's chief hostage negotiator, said in Tehran that an agreement had substantially been reached. The Algerians were so certain that the ordeal was near an end that they dispatched a planeload of Algerian journalists to Tehran to cover and film the hostages' release...
...revolution?" So asked a senior Iranian politician as a debate began in Tehran-remarkably like the one in Washington-over whether the hostage deal was honorable, as claimed by the fundamentalist clergymen who negotiated it, or a sellout of the national interest. Similar questions were pointedly put to Behzad Nabavi, Iran's chief hostage negotiator, when he spelled out the terms of the agreement on Tehran radio. An Iranian phoned to ask him: If the hostages were spies, why were they not tried? If they were not spies, why were they arrested in the first place? Nabavi dodged...
...sure, a final agreement on the terms for release had not yet been signed by the U.S. and Iran. But the Iranians announced publicly that all of the major differences between the negotiators had been resolved. On Sunday morning U.S. time, Behzad Nabavi, Iran's chief hostage negotiator, declared: "The government of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the United States finally reached agreement on resolving the issue of the hostages today." In Washington, Vice President Walter Mondale declined to go quite that far. Said he: "We're very, very close, but we do not yet have...
...Tuesday, the rising spirits sagged once again. Iran's chief hostage negotiator, Behzad Nabavi, had urged the Majlis, the Iranian parliament, to take emergency action to pass two bills that would expedite settlement of the hostage issue. One would authorize arbitration of disputes involving Iranian assets in the U.S. The other would nationalize all assets of the late Shah, thus making Iran's claims to his property more legally defensible. But when the Majlis met to consider the two bills, a required quorum of the twelve-man Council of Guardians, a group of six clerics and six laymen...