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COVER: Photograph for TIME by Firooz Zahedi...
...novel about Washington," Quinn explains. "There are so many living and breathing cliches walking around this town that you sort of have to put them in." An amorous Arab diplomat gives a blond reporter a Mercedes. Before the Shah fell, it was rumored that Iranian Ambassador Ardeshir Zahedi had offered Quinn one. "It never happened, but some papers reported that it did," says Quinn, "so I put it in the book...
...guarantees that the U.S. will not interfere in Iranian affairs.) But in an interview with TIME last week, Brzezinski characterized the Sullivan charges as "totally self-serving." He also denied one charge that, if true, would be especially damning. Sullivan writes that in November 1978 Brzezinski dispatched Ardeshir Zahedi, then the Shah's envoy to Washington, on a fact-finding mission to Iran, thus circumventing and humiliating Sullivan, and that Brzezinski consulted with Zahedi every day over an open long-distance telephone line, with the Soviets presumably listening in. According to Brzezinski, however, Zahedi returned to Tehran...
...sensitive secret documents relating to the Shah's dealings with foreigners are in the imperial court archives. We have asked for these documents and I would expect the truly explosive materials would be among them. [There is one] document in which former Iranian Ambassador to the U.S. Ardeshir Zahedi recorded the support of such prominent figures as [Zbigniew] Brzezinski, [Henry] Kissinger, [Nelson] Rockefeller and Senators [Howard] Baker and [Abraham] Ribicoff for the Shah's move in setting up a military government in the fall...
This is the document in which Zahedi quotes Kissinger* as arguing for a "stiff stand against" opposition figures and adding that "my view is that all the political prisoners released earlier should be arrested and put back in jail." We didn't release it, but I can assure you the document is genuine. Some Americans must be squirming at the thought of what's in the other documents...