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...remains as Iran's Minister for Finance and Economics, but the new Foreign Minister and the new power in Khomeini's government is Sadegh Ghotbzadeh, who appears to be strongly anti-American. His hostility to the U.S. apparently dates from the 1960s, when he was expelled twice, or so he claims. (Though already in his 30s, he was a student at Georgetown University for five years...
...little frightened at the thought of this untutored man careening through the world's tragedies under the protective banner of the House of Representatives. Speaker Thomas O'Neill called Hansen "out of bounds." Nor, in hindsight, did the Iranians feel kindly about the Hansen mission. Foreign Minister Sadegh Ghotbzadeh summed it up: "I don't think that was of any good whatsoever...
...Sadegh Ghotbzadeh, 45, is acting director of National Iranian Radio and Television and thus a potentially powerful figure. He claims to have been twice expelled from the U.S. during his 20 years abroad as a dissident "student." U.S. officials deny this...
...might also mollify some Shi'ite leaders, including Ayatullah Sharietmadari, who believe that the tribunals should be more selective in their pursuit of revenge against the followers of the toppled Shah. But there will be no mercy for the Shah himself. Speaking at a pro-Palestinian rally, Ayatullah Sadegh Khalkhali, head of Tehran's revolutionary court, issued a worldwide murder contract for the exiled monarch, several members of his family and his closest advisers. "Anyone who wants to assassinate these people," Khalkhali proclaimed, would be considered "an agent of the Islamic Revolutionary Court." The owner of an Iranian...
...presented their case. Said one: "The point of the marches was freedom to choose. We have nothing against the chador; we are only against compulsion. We marched for everybody's rights." Harder-line elements of the new government condemned the marchers as "CIA inspired" and "counterrevolutionaries." When Sadegh Ghotbzadeh, director of national radio and television, called for a counterdemonstration, 100,000 people flooded into the spring sunshine, half of them in chadors. Earnest men passed out leaflets to uncovered women reading: "Sister, I value your modesty above the blood I have given." Women marched under banners supporting the Islamic...