NO CELEBRATION IN TEHRAN STREETS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90-00552R000606050004-2
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: K
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: December 22, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 23, 2010
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: July 28, 1980
• Content Type: OPEN SOURCE

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-%Revolutionary ltan~is reacting with remarkabl'
calm to the news of the Shah's passing..Conspicuousl}~
abseflt is the immediate rejoicing similar to that which{
followed the news in January 1979 that;ihe Shab had
left the country. ,
:`Headlines had announced: "Shah gone," and peoPi
bad inn wild through the streets, jumping: singing. an
raising victory signs: Said one sbopi ::
`- ,With the ltiiuslim militants,`who hold~the hostages cap-
tive; thwarted in their attempts to hringahe farmer mon-
arch to trial,. President Banff Sadr and other lianian au-
thorities aze free to concentrate on the' captors' other
demands.
,One of these, sigciificantly, was reiterated only hours
after the Shah's passing by the pro-Banff-Sadr chief of
Iran's central bank -that ?the wealth the monarch took
with him into exile be returned: _
?In Washington the Carter administration can now fo-
cos on what, besides the Shah's presence_before ahang=
.man's jury, it could offer Iran in swap?for the hostages.
`;Among the obvious~possibilities; money, and/or.some
form of acknowledgement of_past US "interference'.' in
Iranian affairs: -
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_; All this.is what the Shah's passing has changed:'The
problem is what the Shah's death has not changed _ .__
-;': President Carter, particularly in a`.US election year;..
may be loath to offer the kind of concessions instrumental
to an Iranian hostage release.` ~ :{.` ,_'
i~President Bari Sadr,.meaaziwhile ~reinains-President.
only in name ~ . _. r ~ ,,~ `.;.
-'?~The prompt July 27 statement by a'presidential aide-
that~the Shah's passing would have no considerable effect
ion the~hostage impasse seemed to reflect 1~ir. Banff-5adr's;
~own'realizatiori that be remains in no position~to force the
hand ofhis powerful, fundamentalistrivals _
'e.:Barring what would beeven by Iranian revolutionary
standards,:a surprise development Mr Banff-Sadr may:
never:be in that position: ; ~: ~? , : r-r
;Yet .latest indications from Tehran. , .where he~ has
nominated ~Mostafa Iviir-Salim, a; member of.:the. funda=~
mentalist Islamic Republican Partyas'precnier .- are.
that the President is now concentrating on the possibility-
of a compromise with his rivals.,
~': Such a compromise could be a key in the Iranian side of
ahostage-release equation s - ,?~ _ ,, _ ?; ":
.=ti To be. workable; giyeq Ayatoliali ~Khomeini''s recent'
pubicc Boosts for the hard-liners, the deal would probably
have to give theFIRP an all but?undisputed upper hand ink
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