Word: sadegh
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...slow walk along bleak prison corridors, and finally the waiting firing squad. Last week the executioners' guns took aim, on the specific orders of the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini, at one of the founding figures of the Islamic revolution that swept away Shah Reza Pahlavi in February 1979: Sadegh Ghotbzadeh, 46, the man who sprang to international prominence as Iran's Foreign Minister during the U.S. hostage crisis. Ghotbzadeh was shot after a 26-day trial in which he was accused by the Islamic military prosecutor of plotting to overthrow the Islamic government and assassinate Khomeini...
...shamed before the nation. Free I me or execute me." With that dramatic statement, former Foreign Minister Sadegh Ghotbzadeh confessed on Iranian television last week that he had participated in a plot to overthrow the government and assassinate its spiritual leader, the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini. Looking tired and drawn, Ghotbzadeh told a bizarre story in which he implicated an other powerful religious leader, the Ayatullah Seyed Kazem Shariatmadari. The plot purportedly called for Khomeini's house to be bombed or rocketed while he was meeting with government leaders. After that, attacks were to be launched against headquarters...
...freed many units of the Revolutionary Guards, a civilian militia used to combat domestic opponents in the chaotic period following the revolution, to serve in the battle against Iraq. Fewer officials are being purged these days for political reasons, though Revolutionary Guards last week arrested former Foreign Minister Sadegh Ghotbzadeh, who has long been at odds with the ruling Islamic fundamentalists...
...correspondents were expelled at the end of that year. Because of concerns for his safety, his name has been kept out of the magazine for nearly a year. Those fears turned out to be well grounded. Samghabadi was arrested and terrorized in an effort to use him to frame Sadegh Ghotbzadeh, former Foreign Minister and a close associate of the Ayatullah Khomeini, as an agent of the CIA. He refused and was subjected to a mock execution. Now safe in the U.S., Samghabadi tells of his arrest-and flight...
...Party and including a faction of the guerrilla organization Fadayan-e-Khalq. So far, these groups have opposed Banisadr, whom they suspect of being pro-Western. Instead, they have pretended to support the mullahs, whose bungling feeds the popular discontent necessary for an eventual Communist takeover. Former Foreign Minister Sadegh Ghotbzadeh told TIME last week...