Word: entezam
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Abbas Amir Entezan had advised the U.S. on ways of mending relations with the revolutionary government. One document described him as "actively interested in maintaining contacts with the United States and sincerely trying to mend bilateral relations between Iran and the United States." Summoned to Tehran, supposedly for consultations, Entezam was arrested at the airport on charges of disloyalty. Meanwhile, the Ayatullah Kazem Sharietmadari, Khomeini's chief religious rival, went into seclusion. As a result, his disappointed followers, the Azerbaijanis, who had been demonstrating for two weeks in Tabriz, suspended their protest against the central government...
Bill counted eight top Khomeini aides who either have lived in the U.S. or have children going to school here, and six who are "very close to France and to Western Europe." Included are two members of Khomeini's Revolutionary Council, Dr. Ibrahim Yazdi and Abbas Amir Entezam. Yazdi lived in Houston for ten years. He studied with Bill, who said, "He is a very serious, pro-American, solid kind of personality." Entezam received a degree in structural engineering from the University of California at Berkeley and "is about as American as you can possibly get," said Bill...