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Before the war in the gulf began, my blood used to boil at the very mention of Ayatullah Khomeini. But today I cannot help sympathizing with the poor devil. His spectacular crusade captured the world's imagination, and it is a sorry spectacle to see such an industrious personality faltering before his adversary and heading toward inevitable disaster...
...short, unshaven young men in blue jeans and olive-drab flak jackets walked up to the door of Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini's modest house in the Tehran suburb of Jamaran. They were immediately ushered inside. The two visitors had been mere university freshmen until a year ago. On Nov. 4, 1979, they joined an estimated 500 other militants in seizing and occupying the U.S. embassy. Now, while their comrades downtown were preparing to celebrate the first anniversary of the siege, the two young men were reporting to Khomeini to elicit his "guidance" about the vote by the Majlis...
Neither oil shortages nor military set backs appear to have dampened Khomeini's stubborn resolve to continue the fight. Addressing members of the Irani an parliament at a mosque near Tehran last week, the 80-year-old revolutionary leader angrily declared that "peace is not acceptable" with Iraq. Saddam's "crimes were "incomparable in history," thundered Khomeini, and there could be no compromise until the Iraqi leader "repents and says 'I have become a Muslim.' " Iraqi Foreign Minister Saadoun Hammadi, meanwhile, spelled out his country's tough position in a letter to United Nations Secretary...
Once the Iranian parliament set the terms for freeing the 52 American hostages, a major question loomed in the minds of bankers and businessmen around the world. How, exactly, will President Carter be able to meet the Khomeini government's demand that he unfreeze $8 billion in official Iranian assets that were blocked last November in U.S. banks and overseas branches? Insisted one top Treasury Department policymaker: "We're sure as hell not going to let a couple of courtrooms stand in the way of releasing those Americans." Nonetheless...
...into an Iranian account. Even the $ 1.5 billion that private banks have seized to offset their Iranian loans could probably be pried loose with the cooperation of international bankers. There would probably be an understanding that the Iranians would accelerate the settlement of the old loans. So far, the Khomeini regime has continued to make payments on the non-American portions of Iranian debts...