Word: sadegh
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...first week of September, the West German government informed American diplomats that Iran wanted to open negotiations about the hostages through a secret emissary. The agent was Sadegh Tabatabai, a brother-in-law of Khomeini's son Seyyed Achmed and a former Deputy Prime Minister under Mehdi Bazargan...
Meanwhile, the Shah, recuperating in Panama (Mexico had refused to readmit him), was beyond U.S. jurisdiction. In Paris, a nephew of the Shah was assassinated on orders of Ayatullah Sadegh Khalkhali, the revolution's hanging judge. In Iran and in the U.S., people were digging in for a long haul...
...first weeks of the new year Iran expelled U.S. journalists for unfriendly reporting, and Abolhassan Banisadr, the country's new President, called the hostage crisis "a minor affair, easily settled." Banisadr, who had been Foreign Minister until replaced by the truculent Sadegh Ghotbzadeh, publicly doubted the wisdom of the hostage taking. Now he seemed to be saying, though without much consistency, that the hostages would be released after a five-member U.N. fact-finding commission released its report on the Shah's crimes and the U.S. met Iran's conditions: admission of guilt, recognition of Iran...
Appearing on ABC's Issues and Answers, a former member of the Iranian executive branch, ex-Foreign Minister Sadegh Ghotzbadeh, endorsed the legislators' call for releasing the hostages in batches. Later on the same program, however, Muskie reiterated the longstanding U.S. insistence that all of the American captives be freed at once...
...deputy in attendance was the Ayatullah Sadegh Khalkhali, the notorious "hanging judge" who has ordered more than a hundred people executed. He, like most of the senior mullahs, supported the deal. Cursing the organizers of the boycott as "truant kids," he pounded his fists so hard on his desk that his turban fell off The session was then adjourned until Sunday. Said Khalkhali: "This Majlis is incapable of solving the hostage problem. The Imam [Khomeini] should solve it himself...