Word: sadegh
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...miles away in Tehran something most indecent was happening to their corpses, Iranian authorities tore open the plastic bags that contained the charred remains, poked at them with knives and held up pieces for government television crews. 'This is proof of Carter's crime," ranted .he Ayatullah Sadegh Khalkhali, formerly Tehran's chief Islamic judge. Then, switching hypocritically to mournful tones, he added: "My heart aches for the families of these victims...
...allowing Iranian militants to hold the American hostages for the past six months. The irony could hardly have been lost on the Iranians, who went to embarrassing lengths in an effort to establish a difference between the two embassy seizures. Touring the Persian Gulf, Iran's Foreign Minister Sadegh Ghotbzadeh said that the seizure of the American embassy in Tehran was "a reaction to 25 years of oppressive plunder," whereas the London incident was "a terrorist act" perpetrated by "a few mercenaries who are being employed by another government." Whom was he talking about? Tehran's favorite enemies...
When the mission was over, Iran's leaders attacked the U.S. with rhetoric but refrained from taking any reprisals against the hostages. Foreign Minister Sadegh Ghotbzadeh sounded threatening enough. Said he: "The U.S. has committed an act of war. We will make the appropriate response...
...denials, of expectations and frustrations. After weathering the exchanges, an exasperated Hodding Carter, the State Department spokesman, declared: "We find ourselves at some loss to determine exactly what the Iranian government is saying." In Tehran, the Revolutionary Council felt much the same way about Washington. Said Foreign Minister Sadegh Ghotbzadeh after one U.S. denial: "This runs the risk of destroying any faith the Iranians still have in what the American Government says or does." In both countries, the drama was complicated by presidential politics, with Carter fighting to win primaries and Iranian President Abolhassan Banisadr struggling to wrest control...
While other revolutionary leaders in Iran reacted angrily to the news of the Shah's flight to Egypt last week, Foreign Minister Sadegh Ghotbzadeh expressed a certain measure of optimism about the crisis in an interview with TIME'S Raji Samghabadi. Excerpts...