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For them, and for the Carter Administration, the news from Iran is unchanged: discouraging. Banisadr wants a resolution of the hostage crisis to get on with solving his country's enormous economic problems, and Washington had hoped that his moderate supporters would win a majority in the new 270...
Khomeini asked defeated candidates to be good losers and to refrain from making wild accusations. Said he: "It is anti-Islamic to accuse a contender of dishonesty and treachery out of sheer spite." What Khomeini fears, confided a member of the clerical establishment, is that the Assembly will prove to...
He is secretary of the ruling Revolutionary Council, president of Iran's Supreme Court and an ayatullah-the highest spiritual title in the Shi'ite branch of Islam. He is, in the view of Western diplomats, an ambitious powerbroker who puts personal game above political and even religious...
Born in Isfahan, the son of a clergyman, Beheshti began his political career in 1965, when three of Iran's ranking ayatullahs nominated him as spiritual leader of a mosque for Iranian immigrants in Hamburg, West Germany. His five years there aroused much criticism from dissident Iranian students, who...
As head of the Islamic Republic Party, Beheshti was primarily responsible for forcing the resignation of Iran's first postrevolution Prime Minister, Mehdi Bazargan-who has neither forgiven nor forgotten. Beheshti endorsed the militants takeover of the U.S. embassy, and supports their refusal to turn the hostages over to...