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It was variously hailed as "the birth of Islamic justice" and the "fruition of the blood of the revolution's martyrs." At the bidding of the Muslim clergy, tens of thousands of Iranians last week took to their rooftops to herald its coming. Next morning, 17 months after the...
The archrivals of the Islamic regime -President Abolhassan Banisadr and Ayatullah Seyyed Mohammed Beheshti, leading member of the Revolutionary Council-were assigned adjacent seats in the front of the ornate red-and-gold chamber, the size of a movie theater. They scarcely looked at each other during the ceremony, which...
It was apparent to all that the parliament was coming into being at a time when Iran could hardly have faced graver problems: a dangerously deteriorating economy, mounting internal strife, and growing international isolation. In his own address, Banisadr emphasized Iran's dire economic predicament. Inflation is running at...
It says something about the conference of Islamic Foreign Ministers in Islamabad last week that one of the more moderate voices heard there was that of Iran's Sadegh Ghotbzadeh. "When we condemn the U.S. for supporting Israel in Palestine and for intervening in Viet Nam," said Ghotbzadeh, who...
The mood of the Islamic ministers, who represented 39 nations and the Palestine Liberation Organization, has changed considerably since they met in the Pakistani capital last January. The final resolution of that conference attacked the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan as a "flagrant violation" of international law. The muted resolution adopted...