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Carter's recent order to undergo a status check at the
Immigration Office. Passports, student visas and letters from
school officials were part of the identification required for the
check.
Iranians and Americans
speak out on hostage crisis
by Robbie Cohen
National Editor
“It’s not the fault of the American people,”
said one UB Iranian student in reference to the
emotional national reaction to the holding of 62
hostages at the American embassy in Teheran.
“It’s the hews media; they’re not telling the
people the truth,” said the Iranian student who
requested not to be identified.
The continuing international crisis brought on
by the seizure of Teheran’s sprawling American
diplomatic compound by thousands of angry
Iranian students demanding the return of the
former Shah, Reza Pahlevi, to stand trial for
crimes against his people is now entering its third
week with no solution in sight. The two sides, the
Iranian students with the backing of the
preeminent Iranian spiritual and political leader
Ayatollah Khomeini, and the Carter
administration, which is demanding the
immediate release of the hostages, are no closer
to a bargain than they were two weeks ago.
Although the students have not set a deadline
and appear to have relaxed their former
intransigent position of no dialogue until the
ailing former monarch is extradited from his New
York hospital bed, Iran’s call for the convening
of a United Nations Security Council meeting on
the crisis could cause a breakthrough.
Objective
-
do
closer
The, Carter administration has conceded that
Us recent responses to the loggerhead
situation—the cutoff of Iranian oil imports, an
investigation of Iranian student illegals by the
Immigration and Naturalization Service, and the
freezing of all Iranian assets held in U.S. banks
(estimated at upwards of $5 billion)—will not
bring this objective any closer. Carter has played
a cautious game of sitting tight and doing nothing
to jeopardize the hostages’ lives, cautioning an
indignant America that it also remains prudently
mute for fear of the consequences.
To what extent Americans have heeded or will
heed the President’s advice, however, is highly
debatable especially if overt threats to the lives of
the hostages are delivered. The crisis has elicited
the most vociferous outbursts from the American
public since the Vietnam War. Whereas then the
nation was decisively polarized, now liberals and
conservatives, young and old alike, are outraged
by this seemingly blatant affront to American
pride and the “sanctimonious” rules of
international law.
Reluctant to talk
There are approximately 115 Iranian students
registered in graduate and undergraduate courses
at UB, according to Vice President of Student
Affairs Richard Siggelkow.
While those Iranian students here who were
interviewed by The Spectrum were at first
reluctant to talk and insisted their names not be
included, they generally approved of the holding
of American hostages to secure the handing over
of the Shah “to justice.” Echoing the arguments
of the Ayatollah, one Iranian student contended
that the American embassy was not a real
embassy at all, just a nest of spies who were
plotting the overthrow of the national revolution.
It is on that basis, the student argued, that the
invaders could break the normally inviolable
rules of international law.
Spy nests
When confronted with the point that although
embassies in many nations —notably the Soviet
York
and
in
missions
New
Washington—function as bases for extensive spy
networks and that there is no precedent for the
host nation condoning a seizure—the Iranian
student replied that the CIA inspired overthrow
of Modasseq (the leader of the 1953 revolution
against the Shah) is still fresh in his countrymen’s
minds. “We will not let this happen again,” the
student said.
The Iranian students interviewed were
adamant that the Shah is a cold blooded
murderer and treasonous criminal and deserves
no sympathy for his cancer affliction.
“It’s a simple question of human rights,” he
said, “if America harbored a butcher-like
Eichmann or any other Nazi war criminal and
said he deserved medical treatment because he
was fatally ill, don’t you think the world would
be outraged? it’s the same thing with the Shah,
he has brutally murdered thousands of innocent
Iranians and oppressed the entire nation, isn’t it
right that he be delivered to justice?”
Another student couldn’t understand why the
U.S.
doggedly
refuses
to
exchange
one
murderous criminal for 62 of their countrymen.
A third Iranian, recounting how he was verbally
abused by an American UB student, said he
couldn’t get angry at him because the individual
was pathetically ignorant of the realities of the
Shah’s oppression, adding the student was
brainwashed by distorted American media
coverage.
Status check—harassment?
All the Iranians interviewed felt the crisis
would eventually be resolved and the American
hostages released. When asked if they consider a
check on the status of the 50,000 Iranian students
in the U.S. ordered by Carter last- Sunday,
harrassment, they demurred from saying yes or
no at this time.
All of the U.S. students approached on campus
expressed outrage at the hostage blackmail,
although none were in favor of an immediate
American military response. One student, Jim
Taglialatela asserted, “The people who scuffled
with Iranian demonstrators in Houston last week
and others who were picking fights are basically a
bunch of rednecks, they hate foreigners.”
Another student, Chris Hoak, said that if an
Iranian rally did materialize at UB, he would be
.
on
hand
to
join a
counter-demonstration.
“There’s no reason why we should submit to
their blackmail and give them back the Shah,”
Hoak said.