Word: sadegh
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Monde, the Paris daily, that the release of the American hostages was no longer linked to the return of the deposed Shah, and that "it would suffice that the U.S. admits its responsibilities and resolves never again to interfere in our affairs." This was soon contradicted by Foreign Minister Sadegh Ghotbzadeh, who was in Athens on an official visit. There he declared that "our demands are legitimate and right, and the Shah must be extradited." And the Ayatullah Seyyed Mohammed Beheshti, First Secretary of Iran's ruling Revolutionary Council, indicated that Banisadr lacked authority to order the militants occupying...
...incident unleashed a wave of criticism against the student militants, whose popularity seems to be ebbing. Foreign Minister Sadegh Ghotbzadeh warned that the government would use force, if necessary, to enforce its decision if and when it agrees to free the hostages. Early in the week, the militants called off a demonstration that had been scheduled to coincide with Banisadr's swearing-in ceremony, apparently because they feared the populace would not turn out. The number of militants present at the U.S. embassy was reported to have dropped from around 400 as of last month...
Back in Tehran, the outwitted captors of the U.S. hostages and government officials were apoplectic. "This is illegal, it's illegal!" raged one of the militants guarding the U.S. embassy. Iranian Foreign Minister Sadegh Ghotbzadeh, just defeated in his quest for the presidency, vowed: "Sooner or later, somewhere in the world, Canada will pay." Whatever "hardness or harshness" now befalls the American hostages, he threatened, "it's only the Canadian government that will be responsible...
Most of America's allies had doubts that the proposed embargo would end the eleven-week-old hostage crisis. They also wondered if the U.S. was wise to go ahead with it in the face of the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. Iranian Foreign Minister Sadegh Ghotbzadeh boasted that "these kinds of pressures don't deter us at all," and sternly advised other nations to stay out of Washington's "political games." Oil Minister Ali Akbar Moinfar announced that Iran would immediately cut off oil shipments "to any country that joins the U.S. economic boycott against Iran." That...
Word of the expulsion, which affected the remaining 86 American journalists in the estimated 300-member foreign press corps in Tehran, came early last week from Abol Ghassam Sadegh, Iran director general for the foreign press in the Ministry of National Guidance. He also forbade Iranian employees of U.S. news organizations to file dispatches, and warned that European newsmen too could be expelled for any "biased" reporting. The Americans, said Sadegh, "were out of touch with reality and "unfair to Iran and its revolution." He speculated that their departure might actually cool the hostage crisis by shifting press attention elsewhere...