HASHEMI TRIES TO PLAY HARD BALL

• Document Type: FOIA
• Keywords: IRAN-CONTRA
• Collection: FOIA Collection
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): 0001296189
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: U
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: June 22, 2015
• Document Release Date: June 9, 2009
• Case Number: F-1992-00896
• Publication Date: July 15, 1985

APPROVED FOR RELEASE^DATE:
1. At 0930 on Saturday, 13 July, Mr. Shaheen phoned my
to say that Hashemi accepts our proposal tha
must be present at the first meeting
Hashemi, however, added the conditio ng turther would-
be don t
e
o set up this first meeting until someone
talked to his lawyer. Elliot u
2. I repeated our previ
would be given to discussing H
the first meeting took place.
.,progress in this channel at `an
requirement that someone must
e
y nse a close friend
of Hashemi. We agreed that in both the intelligence and, oil
businesses, not all deals pan out, and I gave him some profuse
thanks for h; c
i
f
sition, that no consideration
's legal problem until after
fare,. we, consider further
ntil H'ashem withdraws his
to Richardson.
3. Shaheen agreed that tactic made sense to him. in
/view of the derogatory information we had on the other Ira.ni?an
?MAUCHEHR. ,Shaheen' was also at'pains to say that he was anxious
to be helpful to the DCI and was not in an s
s
orts s in this case.
4. The, above was relayed to Peter Burleig r o on
Sa
ay, 13 July, and State forwarded a status rep
D0
 tain a nolle prosequi, Cyrus HASHEMI,
eportedly intermediary in arranging a
a-vis U. S.-Iran relations. HASHEMI
11 not be involved in the release of the
remaining hostages because Hizballah deals
7 fans are willing to meet with the
as an initial step; they are
Cyrus H
expor
prov
York
are
cit
via
chang
claims
seven (Ju
directly with Ira
a Federal Arrest Warrant was issued for
s two brothers Jamshid and Reza for arms
ions. The warrant is based on several
do rms;.embargo. Reza was errested in -New
y 1984 s presently in jail. Cyrus and Jamshid
in London. Cyrus, born circa 1940 in Iran, is U. S.