Word: ghotbzadeh
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...were expelled at the end of that year. Because of concerns for his safety, his name has been kept out of the magazine for nearly a year. Those fears turned out to be well grounded. Samghabadi was arrested and terrorized in an effort to use him to frame Sadegh Ghotbzadeh, former Foreign Minister and a close associate of the Ayatullah Khomeini, as an agent of the CIA. He refused and was subjected to a mock execution. Now safe in the U.S., Samghabadi tells of his arrest-and flight...
...including a faction of the guerrilla organization Fadayan-e-Khalq. So far, these groups have opposed Banisadr, whom they suspect of being pro-Western. Instead, they have pretended to support the mullahs, whose bungling feeds the popular discontent necessary for an eventual Communist takeover. Former Foreign Minister Sadegh Ghotbzadeh told TIME last week...
...first weeks of the new year Iran expelled U.S. journalists for unfriendly reporting, and Abolhassan Banisadr, the country's new President, called the hostage crisis "a minor affair, easily settled." Banisadr, who had been Foreign Minister until replaced by the truculent Sadegh Ghotbzadeh, publicly doubted the wisdom of the hostage taking. Now he seemed to be saying, though without much consistency, that the hostages would be released after a five-member U.N. fact-finding commission released its report on the Shah's crimes and the U.S. met Iran's conditions: admission of guilt, recognition of Iran...
...Sadegh Ghotbzadeh is not stepping down as Foreign Minister, as implied in TIME's interview [Sept. 1]. He is no longer wanted. His criticism of the present regime in Iran is calculated to pave the way for his future, since he knows that the circus is coming to an end. He hopes to secure a place in whatever is to follow...
...harsh criticism of the U.S., Iran's highly visible Foreign Minister, Sadegh Ghotbzadeh, has actually been a moderating influence within his country's government. As new Prime Minister Mohammed Ali Raja 'i was busy choosing his Cabinet last week, Ghotbzadeh sent an extraordinary letter to the Majlis (parliament), warning that a trial of the 52 U.S. hostages "would be against the national interest, "and urging a speedy, negotiated resolution of the crisis. Since the Majlis is dominated by fundamentalist Muslims of the Islamic Republic Party, many of whom want to prosecute some of the hostages as spies...