IRAN: MAJLIS TURNING TO CONSIDERATION OF HOSTAGE ISSUE WITH AGONIZING SLOWNESS

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP81B00401R000500110015-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 27, 2003
• Sequence Number: 15
• Publication Date: September 4, 1980
• Content Type: SUMMARY

EARCIi - p,NALYS S S .-. SEPTENIDER' 4 , . 1.9 8 0
IFAI MAJLIS TURNING': TO" CONSIDERATION. OF HOSTAGE ISSUE --
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WITI AGONIZING: SLOWNE
ter' the. Ma - i u s: is moving- toward
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will also make; clearer. the-'range. at possible requirements for
it is ahe=:: L'stst.~tsme -tha P
attention ' :to- they= issue...: Irz__ that sense, the decision is victory
_-- _ r - a .arel er tn. Conlaress
any genufne consensus. abou
to-.reply to thee . Letter. from:-.,US`.Congr'essmen is .. signi -=ant. because
thel arliament.. has formally turned its
a
Issue 4
a:= review' of;., theIhostage ,- "
t- how to handle: it.. The- Ma lis'~ decision
> 1X_%mete . by ml llsme
?Zt3vouT we doubt; that: there is
the hostages .release< .
f deliberately ke their. demands=- vague i
reply was-,- . tnaz; it wau iu ~.v,.....+~ ........._
putting: . its` demands= on paper. ''In. t e past, the radicals,
' n order to perpetuate
A. primary reason?:-for opposing
letter was=: warrante
the of a
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the, crisis: indefinitely
~Rafsanlani" dec~szo toy send=: the- letter. bac to
foreign affairs committee ':'Ofthe Mail i s rather ttiarr bald a full Asa i z
debate ffollowinTa publid.:-readlizq.of the first drat' za be
designed to; the drafting= process .:: In order
e ' ut`then committee, the?~-radicaSs could. adopt one, of two
Linw;
strategies.
~.insist^. on.. a vaguer. . general: document. which castigates
the. U. . but -does not. contain specific.. de ands f c r
._ .: s :: ending- the crisis : or
present : a= List- o f tough demands which are- pre-
condtionsto :any? hostage negotiations
Since Ayatollahs Khameneie Cleader of the: Tehran- Friday
mosque ands Khoini.- .(the .Embassy occupiers'- spirits 9:1= are z, I
members of the' connnttee` the.- hardliners will- probably be able
tc assurerthat a document acceptable to them is drafted.
There are. no solid;.-indications that: the Ma`s 'mows
what to'.. do w th the hostages. Mode rates- continue to warn about
the. dangers: of a tr.iai. Key fundamentalists,: such- as Heheshti`
and: Rafsanjani,.' . have, still: not taken any def initiue sta??
issue' in. large a because Khomeini still seems to be W- the
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several hostage files have. been sent to the Ma 1.1s for its
-eventual consideration-, an& that may be an-
contingency planning for trials.
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