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...Tehran, Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, speaker of the Majlis, seemed to be correcting the Ayatullah's omission by flatly declaring: "The U.S. must condemn its past crimes against the people of Iran." President Carter, just as flatly, responded: "The U.S. is not going to apologize." But Carter added that he had no objection to the Iranians airing their grievances at a legitimate forum, such as might be provided by the U.N. Last week President Abolhassan Banisadr revealed that the U.S. had again proposed such an inquiry. In addition, word leaked out that the State Department has been putting together...
There is no longer any dispute that SAVAK practiced systematic torture. Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, a member of Khomeini's Revolutionary Council, described to TIME'S Raji Samghabadi how SAVAK agents in 1964 lashed the soles of his feet with electric cable: "The flesh was torn apart, and the bones jutted out. There were multiple fractures." The agents, he says, also held a knife to his throat for hours, making small nicks and telling him to guess "when the blade might go all the way down and sever my head." Amnesty International in the 1970s described other methods...
...month transition period until the voters could approve a new theocratic constitution and elect a National Assembly and a President. Whether the internally divided Council will quietly retire after those elections, now scheduled for January, is another question. Last week Khomeini Confidant and Council Member Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani told TIME's Raji Samghabadi...