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...wake of nationwide riots between pro-and anti-Banisadr crowds, squads of Islamic Revolutionary Guards searched the homes of Iranians suspected of harboring the leader of the country's moderates, who had been Iran's President for the past 17 months. Banisadr vanished after Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini dismissed him as chief of the armed forces three weeks ago. Since then, the government has charged Banisadr with unspecified "antirevolutionary and anti-Islamic acts," thus clearing the way for a presidential election next month...
Islamic guards led the dozen girls to the courtyard of Evin Prison in Tehran. The oldest was clad in a flowing black chador, the traditional Muslim veil. The others wore dark head scarves. As the guards began to blindfold them, the girls started chanting, "Death to fascism! Death to Khomeini...
Presiding over this reign of terror was a three-man presidential council, which took power after Khomeini ousted Banisadr. The council's chief member, Supreme Court President Ayatullah Mohammed Beheshti, has gradually emerged as the strongest of the three, by virtue of his leadership of the clergy-controlled Islamic Republic Party (I.R.P.), the dominant political party in Iran. The other council members were Parliamentary Speaker Hojatolislam Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani and Prime Minister Mohammed Ali Raja'i, who has assumed Banisadr's presidential functions until the July elections, when an I.R.P. candidate is expected...
...been the idealistic and forlorn plan of Banisadr. For the fundamentalists, the Paris-educated economist who became President represented a suspiciously Western, secular influence in the revolutionary government. It made no difference that his father, the late Ayatullah Seyed Nasrollah Banisadr, had been an Islamic leader revered by Khomeini. Supporting the suspicions about the deposed President, Khomeini declared last week, "Banisadr and his ilk are Muslims, but their Islam somehow leaves room for U.S. domination." He also charged that Banisadr had urged him "to cashier the government" in his desire "to make a dictator...
Banisadr's crashing fall from power was a classic example of a revolution's destroying its young. He had been Khomeini's protégé, the man who had offered the Ayatullah hospitality when he sought refuge in Paris in 1978. Khomeini, who called Banisadr "my son," thought that the owl-eyed intellectual could provide a scientific rationale for the Islamic reforms he proposed to put into effect, thus marrying the 20th and 7th centuries. Following Khomeini's triumphant return to Iran in 1979, Banisadr seemed to have the Ayatullah's full confidence. Though...