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...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...
...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...