The U.S. and Iran
Iran on hunger strike,
demands shah’s return
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United Press International
TEHRAN, Iran — Iran went on a
five-day hunger strike Monday to
underscore an unbending vow to
hold more than 60 Americans hos
tage in the occupied U.S. Embassy
until the shah is brought back to face
trial.
The hostages were fed as usual.
More than 400 students holding
90 hostages, including 60 Amer
icans, started the fast and thousands
of soldiers, government employees,
teachers and students outside the
compound joined them.
A spokesman for the students’
occupation committee told UPI the
hostages had not been asked to join
the fast.
“They eat what we eat and they’re
eating while we are not today (Mon
day),” he said.
He said the hostages had been
served breakfast and lunch Monday,
although the students themselves
were observing the hunger strike.
The state radio said some “Amer-
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ican agents” had attacked other
embassies in Tehran and harassed
some foreigners. It urged Iranians to
beware of the attackers who, it said,
were trying to distract the revolu
tionary people from their set path.
The radio gave no details of the
attacks.
Acting Foreign Minister Abol
Hassan Bani-Sadr Monday met with
foreign ambassadors and diplomatic
representatives to press for the
shah’s extradition.
The Ettelaat newspaper, quoting
officials of the Islamic Revolutionary
Council, said the government was
considering an oil embargo “if Imam
Khomeini permits” and withdrawal
of Iranian funds from U.S. banks.
The Kayhan newspaper said Ira
nian university officials were prepar
ing to receive Iranian students ex
pelled from the United States.
The fast came in response to
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini’s de
claration Saturday that Iranians
would rather starve than relinquish
their honor. Khomeini made the re
mark in a speech rejecting a papal
request to intervene to free the hos
tages, conveyed to him by Vatican
envoy Monsignor Annibale Bugnini.
Bugnini Sunday visited tbe 60
hostages and reported the captives
were “mentally tired” but in good
health.
Islamic Revolutionary Council
member Mohammad Mofatteh,
accompanied by other powerful cler
gymen, went to see the students be
gin the marathon fast at the embassy.
He urged them to press on with their
campaign to have the shah brought
back for trial in Iran.
The state radio Monday attacked
the United States for its “pretentions
of concern for human rights, which
has been exposed so many times in
Western films depicting American
atrocities against the red Indians.”
Press reports said Ayatollah
Moosavi Khoyeni, the Moslem reli
gious leader who led the attack on
the embassy Nov. 4, might be prom
oted to the membership in the pow
erful Islamic Revolutionary Council
which took over the country when
Prime Minister Mehdi Bazargan res
igned last Tuesday.
In Beirut, Lebanon, Sunday, a
group of 100 students briefly occu
pied the courtyard of the U.S.
Embassy and burned an American
flag. Syrian peace-keeping forces,
using their boots and the butts of
their rifles, evicted the demonstra
tors after 90 minutes.
Bedridden shah
follows takeover
United Press International
NEW YORK — The shah of Iran is spending more time watching
news reports to follow the latest developments in the takeover of the
U.S. Embassy in Iran by Moslem students, a spokeswoman for the
deposed monarch said.
The spokeswoman said Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, recovering
from a gallbladder operation at New York Hospital, is aware ofthe
furor that the takeover of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran has provokedin
the United States.
A hospital spokesman said the shah was listed in good condition
About 40 American demonstrators marched outside the hospital
Sunday, protesting the takeover of the embassy.
The group, a coalition of college students and war veterans, arrived
in a motorcade from Long Island and marched across the street from
the Manhattan hospital.
Doctors have postponed the shah’s scheduled chemotherapy treat
ments for cancer of the lymph nodes because his condition is unstable.
He has been undergoing radiation treatment.
The shah underwent surgery Oct. 24 for removal of his gallbladder.
His doctors plan to use non-surgical methods in an attempt toremovea
gallstone that is blocking his bile duct.
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Domestic violence
worries officials
Iran crisis is cause
Mexico closes Embassy
United Press International
M EXICO CITY — Mexico, where
the deposed shah of Iran lived for
five months, has announced that it is
temporarily closing its embassy in
Iran because of “the situation pre
vailing in that country.
The four-paragraph statement
issued r Monday by the Foreign
Ministry did not refer specifically to
the American hostages held at the
U.S. Embassy in Tehran, nor to the
strained relations between Mexico
and Iran.
The ousted Shah Mohammed
Reza Pahlavi moved to Mexico in
June. He came to New York last
month to undergo medical treat
ment for gall stones and lymph
cancer.
The statement said the embassy
closure “is of temporary character
and is due exclusively to the situa
tion prevailing in that country,
which does not guarantee that our
diplomatic mission in Tehran can
continue operating.”
The communique said Mexico’s
business attache and other embassy
personnel have already left Tehran,
it said the Mexican government will
continue to provide the Iranian
Embassy in Mexico with all diploma
tic guarantees.
Relations between Iran and Mex
ico have been strained since the ex
iled shah and his family came to live
in Cuernavaca, 50 miles south of
Mexico City.
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Officials are concerned for the
safety of Iranian nationals in the Un
ited States because of increasingly
violent confrontations with Amer
icans angered by the U.S. Embassy
takeover in Tehran.
In Denver, an American teenager
lost his life Sunday when a harried
Iranian fired a rifle into a group that
had lobbed a rock through his win
dow, police said.
Motorists honked horns in sup
port of about 200 flag-waving de
monstrators along Washington’s
embassy row, calling for the deporta
tion of Iranian students.
The mounting fervor prompted
concern, especially on the college
campuses that are home to
thousands of Iranian students.
Campus police at the University of
Wyoming took precautions to pro
tect Iranian students' who received
death threats.
A coalition of Long Island (N.Y.)
organizations said it would like to see
all Iranian students placed in protec
tive custody “to prevent them from
facing any harm” at the hands of
angry Americans.
Police in Denver said Afshin Shar-
iati, 24, was in custody for the fatal
shooting of Paul Morityky, 16, and
the wounding of a companion.
Officers said Shariati was appa
rently awakened early Sunday by a
rock that shattered window glass in
his apartment. He ran out with a rifle
and fired in the direction of the boys
who were running for their car.
Police were unable to confirm
whether Shariati was a U.S. citizen
or a visiting student.
In New York, about 40 American
demonstrators, calling for the re
lease of hostages in Tehran, marched
outside the hospital where the shah
of Iran is undergoing cancer treat
ments.
The Washington protest, orgj
nized by local college students, ws
scheduled to be held outside theb
nian Embassy, but police refnsedii
allow the crowd within 200 yardsd
the building.
So the demonstrators, ignoringi
driving rain and chanting, ‘'Sen!
them (Iranian students) home,
moved down the street to the Islam
Center, a gathering spot for M»
lems in the Washington area.
They waved American flags
asked drivers along Massachusetts
Avenue, where many of the
embassies are located, to sound thee
horns. The area was soon filled will
raucous car honks.
Campus police at the Universihd
Wyoming in Laramie confirmedei
tra security precautions were is
effect but refused to comment w
how they were protecting the Ira
nian students. A death threat was
made late Friday in a telephoned
to the university newspaper,
Branding Iron.
I didn’t know if it was a prankoi
not, but I wasn’t going to take the
chance that it wasn’t,” said editor
Lollie Hernandez.
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