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Amid other signs of movement on the hostage issue, Iran's foreign minister, Ali Akbar Velayati, called for all parties to cooperate with U.N. Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar, who is leading diplomatic efforts to free the captives...
From Tehran, Velayati didn't make any predictions, but he expressed support yesterday for the efforts of Perez de Cuellar, who ended three days of talks on the hostages with Iranian leaders on Friday...
Referring to four Iranians who disappeared in Lebanon in 1982, Velayati said: "We are the first victims of that problem and we hope that the efforts of the secretary-general will help in reaching a comprehensive solution to the problem...
...yesterday's talks, Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Velayati reiterated his country's condemnation of the invasion of Kuwait. But he also criticized the presence of U.S. and other foreign forces building up in the Persian Gulf, according to Iran's official Islamic Republic News Agency...
Since Robert Polhill was released two weeks ago, a chorus of calls has gone up for a reciprocal gesture from Washington, something that might promote more releases. Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Velayati said it was now the West's "turn" and suggested that the U.S. press Israel to release Shi'ite Arabs from its prisons. Even Democrat Lee Hamilton, who chairs the House Foreign Affairs subcommittee on the Middle East, recommended "some kind of gesture...