Word: ghotbzadeh
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
When the mission was over, Iran's leaders attacked the U.S. with rhetoric but refrained from taking any reprisals against the hostages. Foreign Minister Sadegh Ghotbzadeh sounded threatening enough. Said he: "The U.S. has committed an act of war. We will make the appropriate response...
...Perdón's exile in Spain. During the past few years, Villalón has operated out of Paris, where he deals in oil and commodities. One of his associates is Christian Bourguet, a leftist lawyer who in the 1970s became a close friend of Foreign Minister Ghotbzadeh, then an exile in Paris. Bourguet introduced Villalón to Ghotbzadeh. They soon became friends...
Villalón apparently passed his statement on to Ghotbzadeh without telling him that Washington had not cleared it. Ghotbzadeh in turn delivered the document to Khomeini. According to one version of events in Tehran, the artful Foreign Minister decided to keep the Villalón connection a secret and told Khomeini that the message had come through the Swiss channel. Another version is that the conduit from Villalón to Ghotbzadeh was in fact the Swiss...
Whatever the case, both Washington and the Swiss denied that Carter had sent the message to Khomeini. Ghotbzadeh then shifted ground, saying that the message was an oral communication from an intermediary and that he himself had translated it into Farsi...
...Council, maintaining that he had received what amounted to a "formal and public" pledge from Carter and that the Council should now take control of the hostages. But Banisadr's clerical opponents, led by Council Secretary Seyyed Ayatullah Mohammed Beheshti, disagreed and carried the vote. After the session, Ghotbzadeh said that the Council wants "more information on the precise position of the United States...