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...Cleveland. Only one other possible event could be as pivotal to the election outcome as the TV clash: a deal between the U.S. and Iran that would bring the American hostages home before Election Day, presumably to Carter's great credit. Last week Iranian Prime Minister Mohammed Ali Raja'i raised that possibility at the United Nations when he told reporters that a decision by his country's parliament on the fate of the hostages was "not far away" (see WORLD...
Iranian Prime Minister Mohammed Ali Raja'i, a strict Muslim fundamentalist, flew to New York City to present to the United Nations Security Council Iran's complaint that Iraq had started the war by attacking Iranian territory. Shortly before Raja'i's arrival, President Carter for the first time referred publicly and disapprovingly to "aggression." Since Iraq is indisputably the aggressor in this conflict, Carter's statement touched off speculation that the U.S. was tilting slightly toward Tehran, perhaps in anticipation of the release of the 52 American hostages. Out of that conjecture grew a new flurry of rumors that...
...entire world must know that Saddam's army has acted without mercy, without pity, like Hitler's army." With that fuming condemnation of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, Iran's Prime Minister Mohammed Ali Raja'i opened a diplomatic front in the Persian Gulf war last week by taking his country's case to the United Nations. Addressing a session of the Security Council, Raja'i charged that "the cruel and despotic regime of Iraq" has bombed schools and hospitals in "its killing of innocent people...
...Raja'i, 47, a former math teacher who became a leading member of the ruling clergy-dominated Islamic Republic Party, was the first ranking Iranian leader to set foot in the U.S. since the seizure of the U.S. embassy in Tehran last year. His diplomacy took a tantalizing turn Saturday, when he told reporters that a decision on the 52 American hostages was "not far away" -thus implying that a release was at least possible before the Nov. 4 elections, with all the impact that such a move would have on the outcome. Iran's demand that...
...same time, Raja'i hinted that the U.S. Government might have to meet certain conditions to free the hostages. U.S. radar planes in Saudi Arabia, warships in the Persian Gulf and military aid to Jordan, he said, were "obstacles to a solution." This was a marked softening of his remarks the day before, when he accused Washington of using the radar planes to gather intelligence for Iraq...