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...named Badii (Homayoun Ershadi) drives around Tehran looking for someone who will do a little job for a lot of money. The profane and sacred task, we eventually learn, is to bury Badii if he is successful in a suicide attempt and to rescue him if he is not. The story is starkly allusive--we never learn why Badii wants to kill himself--and most of the "action" takes place in the cab of Badii's Range Rover, but the film isn't cramped or schematic. The talk flows persuasively; the picture pulses with art and humanity...
...spokesman commended the Khomeini regime for acting quickly to free Ambassador Sullivan and the others and added that Assad Homayoun, the head of the Iranian embassy in Tehran, telephoned assurances from the Khomeini government that the army would protect the Americans...
...When Homayoun and other diplomats showed up for work next morning, General Rafii and his mini-army brandished their weapons and declared they were under orders from Zahedi to maintain control of the embassy until his return. After vainly arguing with the attaches that he held the reins of authority in Zahedi's absence, Homayoun hurried over to the State Department. The department's Iran desk officer, Henry R. Precht, was sympathetic but unable to help. Reason: Washington was baffled by the imbroglio and did not want to meddle in a family quarrel...
Ever the diplomat, Homayoun met again with the occupyuig attachés in an attempt to break the impasse, but negotiations ended in stalemate. Meanwhile twelve other members of the embassy staff, who had walked off the job in a mutiny against Zahedi and the Shah two weeks ago, announced their support of the acting deputy and his demand that the military officers give up the embassy...
When the guards stubbornly refused to abandon their occupation, Homayoun revoked the diplomatic status of Major General Rafii and Zahedi's spokesman Ali Tabatabai, who was accused of lying to cover up the minicoup. But at week's end, Zahedi returned from Morocco and stepped back into the fray. He asked Homayoun to reverse his decision; when he declined, Homayoun was summarily fired along with four other diplomats who supported...