Ghotbzadeh says two months
While other revolutionary leaders in Iran reacted angrily to the news of the Shah's flight to Egypt last week, Foreign Minister Sadegh Ghotbzadeh expressed a certain measure of optimism about the crisis in an interview with TIME'S Raji Samghabadi. Excerpts:
Q. You have said that the ex-Shah's departure from Panama has made the quest for an early, peaceful settlement of the Iran-U.S. crisis extremely difficult. Does it mean you are giving up?
A. Not at all. I remain firmly convinced that the continuation of the crisis is not in the best...