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...crisis that was triggered by the Shah's arrival for treatment in New York is much larger than the Shah. As U.S. embassies go up in flames, and Americans are killed, it is difficult to see how any compromise on the Shah can provide more than a first step toward a return to civilized relations with Khomeini's Iran...
Originally this was not so. First established by Khomeini as a five-member body in November 1978, the Council was supposed to be a "revolutionary parliament" to prepare for an orderly transfer of power from the Shah's regime to a new revolutionary government...
...days of Bazargan's "civilian" rule last February, however, the Council acted more as a rival government, frequently countermanding government directives and intervening in day-to-day administration. The Council directs the revolutionary tribunals that have already put to death by firing squad more than 630 of the Shah's supporters and others. It also controls the Islamic militias and the Islamic Guard, a sort of praetorian security unit for the mullahs...
...devout Muslim who was briefly jailed under the Shah's regime, Moinfar works hard but has frail health...
...only a vague notion of how many Iranians, legal or illegal, are actually in the U.S. Last January, after the Iranian students became a highly visible minority by demonstrating against the Shah, U.S. Attorney General Griffin Bell asked the INS for the exact number in the country. He was appalled to find that it was not available. To try to provide some kind of estimate, the INS got on the phone to colleges around the country and produced a figure of 50,000. Now the agency has combed through its files again and increased the estimate...