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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...
...Sadegh Ghotbzadeh is not stepping down as Foreign Minister, as implied in TIME's interview [Sept. 1]. He is no longer wanted. His criticism of the present regime in Iran is calculated to pave the way for his future, since he knows that the circus is coming to an end. He hopes to secure a place in whatever is to follow...
...harsh criticism of the U.S., Iran's highly visible Foreign Minister, Sadegh Ghotbzadeh, has actually been a moderating influence within his country's government. As new Prime Minister Mohammed Ali Raja 'i was busy choosing his Cabinet last week, Ghotbzadeh sent an extraordinary letter to the Majlis (parliament), warning that a trial of the 52 U.S. hostages "would be against the national interest, "and urging a speedy, negotiated resolution of the crisis. Since the Majlis is dominated by fundamentalist Muslims of the Islamic Republic Party, many of whom want to prosecute some of the hostages as spies...
...exchanged gunfire with police as they tried to flee the building. The three gunmen were arrested, and police hauled in two other suspects the following day. A militant Iranian group calling itself the Guards of Islam claimed to have ordered Bakhtiar's execution. Iran's Foreign Minister Sadegh Ghotbzadeh, however, denied his government's involvement...