Word: ibrahim
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...charge or just presiding over an internal power struggle? Did the fall of the government of Prime Minister Mehdi Bazargan two weeks ago portend a new campaign by Iranian leftists to seize power for themselves? One puzzling element in the recent unrest was the sudden fall from favor of Ibrahim Yazdi, who had been one of Khomeini's closest courtiers during the Ayatullah's last days in exile in France. Partly because he had spent 16 years in the U.S. and had become a naturalized American citizen (a fact that he denied steadfastly during his seven months as Foreign Minister...
...crisis began last Sunday, at a time when relations between the U.S. and Iran were, in the words of former Foreign Minister Ibrahim Yazdi, "lukewarm but improving." Only three days earlier, Prime Minister Bazargan had held a cordial 90-minute meeting with National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski in Algiers, where both men were attending the 25th anniversary celebration of the start of the Algerian war of independence from France. The Iranians had long since resumed U.S. oil shipments, which had been disrupted by strikes and fighting earlier in the year. The National Iranian Oil Co. (NIOC) is now selling about...
Meanwhile, to halt what Foreign Minister Ibrahim Yazdi (see interview) has called "inaccurate reporting" by the foreign press, the Tehran government last week served notice that it was drawing up new restrictions on foreign reporters. New York Times Correspondent Youssef Ibrahim was ordered out of Iran. In early July David Lamb of the Los Angeles Times had also been expelled. No specific grounds were given for Ibrahim's ouster, but Yazdi said it was because of "the general tone of his reporting. American correspondents are not reporting accurately on Iran. We do not say everything is rosy...
Iran's tough-talking Foreign Minister Ibrahim Yazdi, 47, is an American-trained microbiologist who lived and worked in the U.S. for 18 years before joining the Ayatullah Khomeini's entourage in Paris last October. In a candid interview last week, he discussed the prospect of an "Irangate" scandal, the fate of his country's F-14s and other topics with TIME Tehran Bureau Chief Bruce van Voorst. Excerpts...
...unlikely to get any help from Washington. Relations with Tehran took another turn for the worse last week when the Iranian government announced it would not accept U.S. Ambassador-designate Walter L. Cutler. Iranian officials insisted that the decision to reject Cutler was an attempt by Foreign Minister Ibrahim Yazdi to moderate the virulent anti-American campaign sweeping the country. Yazdi reportedly felt that Cutler's appointment would exacerbate ill feelings between the two governments...