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...talk, Sullivan reiterated, sometimes sarcastically, his criticism of Zbigniew Brzezinski, national security adviser to President Carter, and blamed internal Carter administration "scrapping" for what he termed a paralysis in U.S.policy towards the Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlevi in the final stages of his rule...
...parliament, the Majlis. But as Christopher and his colleagues painstakingly explained to their Algerian hosts, constitutional and legal restraints would make it difficult for the Federal Government to carry out the other two demands: the cancellation of all U.S. claims against Iran and the return of the late Shah's wealth to Tehran. Washington policymakers made it clear that Christopher's message went as far as possible in meeting the Iranian terms within the bounds of the U.S. legal system and the national honor. Describing the U.S. response, Secretary of State Edmund Muskie said, "It's comprehensive...
...Iranians have demanded a U.S. promise of nonintervention in Iranian affairs, the freeing of more than eight billion dollars in assets frozen by the Carter administration, cancellation of all American claims against Iran and return of the wealth of the late Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi...
Those conditions had originally been laid down by Khomeini on Sept. 12. They were: 1) a pledge by the U.S. not to interfere in Iranian affairs; 2) the return of the fortune of the late Shah and his close relatives; 3) the unfreezing of Iranian assets held by U.S. banks; and 4) the cancellation of U.S. legal and financial claims against Iran. The Carter Administration had already agreed in principle to try to meet those demands, but the Majlis added a hitch: the captives would be released in stages as each condition...
...Hearst: "I'd expect the hostages to have some quite positive feelings for their captors for the single reason that these people have been playing a parental role with them and kept them in a dependent state." As a result, says Lunde, "they'll be making anti-Shah, anti-CIA statements in the first couple of weeks." Most experts share Lunde's belief that the Stockholm effects will soon wear...