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...domestic unrest, the Khomeini regime faced growing external pressure as a result of its refusal to release the 50 U.S. hostages who have been held captive in the Tehran embassy since Nov. 4. Reporting to the Security Council on his mission to Iran, United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim held out little hope for a speedy resolution, since Iranian authorities continued to demand the extradition of the Shah and the return of his assets...
...Carter Administration, which apparently accepts Waldheim's gloomy forecast, moved last week to bring a resolution calling for economic sanctions against Iran to a Security Council vote. The American proposal calls on U.N. members to halt all exports to Iran, except food and medicine. In addition, it would curb the Iranians' ability to obtain new foreign loans or convert their dollars into other Western currencies...
...landing in Tehran, Waldheim immediately was subjected to humiliating abuse. Local newspapers published a year-old photograph of him kissing the hand of Princess Ashraf Pahlavi, the Shah's twin sister. Read the caption in the evening daily Kayhan: "Kurt Waldheim in his previous trip to Tehran-he and Ashraf have raised their glasses in a toast to the archtraitor Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, marking his victory in the massacre and torture of the defenseless and innocent Iranian nation," A morning newspaper, the Islamic Republic, published another old photograph of Waldheim shaking hands with the Shah, whose face was blotted...
...Waldheim's reception by Ghotbzadeh was not much warmer. They talked for nearly three hours on the morning after the Secretary-General's arrival, and were to meet twice more during the week. The session was devoted mostly to a long tirade by Ghotbzadeh against the U.S. and the U.N. He accused the U.N. of doing nothing about atrocities during the Shah's rule and of involving itself with Iran only after it was prodded by Washington over the hostages. According to a Foreign Ministry statement, Ghotbzadeh told Waldheim: "The superpowers and their satellites continue their sordid...
Whatever slim hopes Waldheim had of winning the confidence of the Iranians ended dramatically that afternoon. As a gesture of sympathy, he had planned to tour a museum exhibition of atrocities that the government says were committed during the Shah's rule and to meet with 100 people who claim to have been crippled by the Shah's torturers. The visit was suddenly called off after about 1,000 unruly demonstrators massed in front of the building. Chanting "America, America, death to your dirty tricks," the crowd denounced the Secretary-General as a U.S. puppet. There also were...