Word: sadegh
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...remained unmoved. Khomeini, who had previously blamed the London embassy seizure on the CIA, said nothing at all. Banisadr, who had been willing to accept "the martyrdom of our children in England," now declared merely that "the brave resistance of our children" had brought "its sweet fruit." Foreign Minister Sadegh Ghotbzadeh insisted, as before, that the London incident was a "terrorist act," while the seizure of the American embassy in Tehran was "a legitimate outcry against 25 years of oppression." Even more bluntly, one of the Revolutionary Council's leading zealots, Ayatullah Seyyed Mohammed Beheshti, told a journalist...
...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...
...rage. Their anger has been ripened by the long spectacle of their nation's ineffectuality and the humiliation of the failed rescue raid, by the nightly TV pageant of Iranian mobs pumping their fists in the air and screaming death threats in Farsi, and by the image of Sadegh Ghotbzadeh's cretinous smirk. Dark impulses that normally stay below, like Ahab's harpooners, begin to straggle up on deck...
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...