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...gunfire with police as they tried to flee the building. The three gunmen were arrested, and police hauled in two other suspects the following day. A militant Iranian group calling itself the Guards of Islam claimed to have ordered Bakhtiar's execution. Iran's Foreign Minister Sadegh Ghotbzadeh, however, denied his government's involvement...
...regime also took steps against "foreign espionage"-and for once this did not refer to the 53 Americans held hostage since November. Foreign Minister Sadegh Ghotbzadeh announced the expulsion of a high-ranking Soviet diplomat accused of spying. He then ordered Moscow to reduce its diplomatic staff in Iran sharply and announced the closing of the Iranian consulate in Leningrad...
...Abolhassan Banisadr and hard-lining Ayatullah Seyyed Mohammed Beheshti, the leader of the clergy-dominated Islamic Republic Party. Behind their personal rivalry lay opposed visions of government: Beheshti and his fundamentalist allies seek total power in a single-party theocratic state. Banisadr and fellow moderates like Foreign Minister Sadegh Ghotbzadeh want a modern, pragmatic government within an Islamic revolutionary framework; they are especially eager to shore up an economy reeling under 50% inflation, 30% unemployment and drastically declining oil production...
Even as Soviet troops were crushing the Muslim rebellion in Afghanistan, the ministers in Islamabad set up a committee -made up of the organization's Tunisian secretary-general Habib Chatti, Iran's Ghotbzadeh and Pakistan's foreign affairs adviser Agha Shahi-to seek a "comprehensive solution" to the crisis through consultations with the concerned parties. The initiative, whose success seems problematical, reflected the delegates' desire for concrete action after the tough language of the earlier conference had failed to produce any results...
...Maizer: "Why do you want to compare the Soviet Union, which is offering help and support to the Palestinian people and the Arab cause, to America, which is feeding Israel with weapons in order to kill the Palestinian people?" Among the leading opponents of this pro-Soviet faction was Ghotbzadeh, who asserted that "the liberation of Afghanistan is not less important than the liberation of Palestine." But the U.S. found no outspoken defenders, although certain delegates quietly expressed sympathy for the hostages...