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...renewed ties with Iran. The message was sent on June 14, 1985, a month before the Bethesda meeting. McFarlane explains that if he did use Ghorbanifar's name in the cable it was because he thought it was the identity of an aide to Iran's parliamentary leader, Hashemi Rafsanjani...
Hojatoleslam Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, the Speaker of the Iranian parliament, last week gave credence to their concern by expressing support for the kidnapers. Speaking of recent abductions, Rafsanjani declared, "The people of Lebanon are so ignored and so oppressed that they have no defense for themselves other than this...
...dealings with Iran have been portrayed as an overture to moderates led by Speaker of the Parliament Hojatoleslam Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani. Actually, CIA sources say, Ghorbanifar had persuaded the entire political leadership of the Islamic republic, including Prime Minister Mir Hussein Mousavi and Ayatullah Hussein Ali Montazeri, designated successor to Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, to assent to secret contacts with the U.S. Two reasons: the Iranians feared the Soviet threat more than any from the West; and they hoped that American arms would soon follow improved relations with...
Even so, Khomeini has gone to considerable lengths to avoid giving the impression that he has withdrawn his support of Montazeri as his handpicked successor. He has, for example, permitted Montazeri to characterize Hashemi as a sort of loose cannon, an Iranian-style Oliver North who frequently acted on his own. Montazeri has denied any complicity in Hashemi's illegal activities and has pressed for a full investigation at "whatever cost." In his televised confession, Hashemi admitted that he had "abused the confidence" of Montazeri...
...widely believed that Montazeri's aides maintain close contacts with the Lebanese Shi'ite captors of the American hostages and that his militant supporters worked to block the efforts of Rafsanjani to trade arms for the captives held in Lebanon. According to this theory, Rafsanjani retaliated by arresting Hashemi and his associates on a variety of charges, and the hard-liners in turn put an end to Rafsanjani's secret dealings with the U.S. by making them public...