Word: sadegh
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...could create internal difficulties for Sadat, whose regime is being criticized by Muslim zealots sympathetic to the Iranian revolution. The departure would also complicate diplomatic efforts to free the 50 Americans held hostage by militants at the U.S. embassy. The day before the Shah's flight, Foreign Minister Sadegh Ghotbzadeh accused former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and Chase Manhattan Bank Chairman David Rockefeller of trying to sneak the Shah out of Panama so he could escape extradition. That would have "a disastrous effect in Iran," he said, and would delay the freeing of the hostages...
Khomeini's decision was a humiliating defeat for Banisadr and his moderate colleagues; only a few days earlier Foreign Minister Sadegh Ghotbzadeh had all but maneuvered the militants into turning over their hostages to the ruling Revolutionary Council as a necessary first step in arranging for their release. The decision was also a slap in the face of the U.N. commissioners, who had overstayed their visit to Tehran in the hope of seeing the hostages. They returned to New York City last week, their mission officially "suspended." In Washington, frustrated officials of the Carter Administration were not only wondering...
...beginning, the U.S. had thought that the commission's visit would lead to the freeing, or at least the moving, of the hostages. On arrival in Tehran, the commissioners discovered that the militants were locked in a bitter power struggle with President Banisadr and Foreign Minister Sadegh Ghotbzadeh. For ten days the militants did everything they could to prevent the commission members from seeing the hostages; they argued that the visit had not been approved by the ailing spiritual leader of Iran's revolution, Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini. But then, as the commissioners prepared to leave for New York...
...Tehran newspaper Azadeghan yesterday quoted Foreign Minister Sadegh Ghotbzadeh as saying "communists and Zionists" were trying to foil the U.N. mission...
...issues altogether in a manner dangerously reminiscent of a president we did have to train. Sen. Howard H. Baker Jr. (R-Tenn.) opposes the vital Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty (SALT II). And former Texas Gov. John B. Connally amply showed the extent of his geopolitical understanding when he called Sadegh Ghotbzadeh "a KGB agent, or at least a Marxist," the other night...