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...million West Germans watched, a solemn Ayatullah Khomeini opened his arms to address a crowd of the faithful. The aged cleric was met by a hearty * round of . . . panties and bras tossed his way by impassioned women admirers. The 14-second TV skit, part of a popular satirical review, irked at least one viewer: Mohammed Javad Salari, Iran's ambassador to Bonn, who denounced the spoof as "insulting." Within days, Tehran had expelled two West German diplomats, closed down its consulates in West Germany for 24 hours and demanded an apology from the Bonn government...
Reagan has insisted that a trade was not involved. "Let me say it was not my intent to do business with [Iran revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah] Khomeini to trade weapons for hostages, nor to undercut our policy of antiterrorism," the president said in a radio address...
Underscoring that argument, Fitzwater said, "The primary purpose was to try to make contacts with certain elements in Iran that would be favorable or friendly to the United States in a post-Khomeini government...not arms for hostages...
...aging Ayatullah's hermetic existence had fueled rumors recently that he was near death. He had not been heard in public since November. But last week Khomeini gave a clear and steady 17-minute talk exhorting his followers to defeat Iraq in the bitter gulf war. Said he: "Almost every day, many children and old men see their homes fall in on them. But as soon as they clamber from the rubble, they speak of the need to make war until victory...
...United Nations report last week showed another side of Khomeini's revolution. It charged that the government had executed at least 7,000 opponents. On that subject the Ayatullah had nothing...