;
FROM ONE

t
Jranian Foreign Minister
Ahothasgan Banl-Sadr
Sreatly softened Iran's
copditions for the release of
re 98 hoslages at the em-

We
We want two things —

that the United States accept
at least an investigation inte
the crimes of the deposed
shah and accept the results
of this investigation,” Bani-
Sadr said.

“Secondly, that the

Americans okay
Iran oil cutoff

WASHINGTON (AP) —
Americans have. rallied
behind President Carter's
decision to ban U.S. imports
of Jranian oll, but officials
say it may mean higher

e8 and a repeat of last
spring’s long lineups at the
gasoline pumps.

Carter’s action Monday —
a reaponse to the seizure of
98 persons as hostages at the
U.S. embassy in Tehran —
will halt imports of about
700,000 barrels a day of
Iranian crude oii and
petroleum products made
from Iranian crude, That
represents about four per
cent of U.S, daily con-
sumption. .

Militant students seized
the embassy Nov. 4 in an
attempt to force the U.S. to
extradite the shah to face
trlal for murder and other
alleged crimes, The shah,

led in last February's

mic revolution, is tm-
dergoing treatment for
cancer at a New York
hospital and U.S. officials
aay they will not force him to
leave,

Carter ordered the ban as
a means of stripping the
franians of what a

kesman called the threat

using oil as a psy-
chological weapon, ‘No one
should underestimate” U.S,
resolve not to capitulate to
. blackmall, the president

Experts in..the, U.S.
government ‘and jrivate

about what the move would
do to U.S, petroleum prices
and supplies,
They said it might have no
effect if the Iranian oil was
diverted to the spot market,
freeing supplies fram other
exporters for the U.S.
However, if fran decided to
lower production — reducing
already tight world supplies
-=“ it would-:mean ‘higher
prives -andwshort:supplies. ...

available at

the willingness of Americans
to reduce consumption.

A Carter administration
official told a news con-
ference that the U.S. could
“totally offset” the loss if
every car was driven three
miles Jess each day.

But administration of-
ficials, asking not to be
named, acknowledged that
any ofl bought to make up for
whatever Americans fail to
conserve likely will be more
expensive than [Iranian
crude, Oil is currently being
sold on the apot market at
prices $20 above the official
OPEC price of $23.60 a
barrel,

Meanwhile, both pollticak
allies and foes of the
president overwhelmingly
supported Carter's decision.
Those who didn’t were
mostly conservative Re-
publicans who fee] the White
House should use farce

Representative Paul
Trible (Rep. Va}, said
Carter would have served
U.S. interests better by
sending “a carrier task force
into the Persian Gulf.”

‘In effect, President
Carter is saying that
Americans should sit in long
lines for more expensive gas
because the Iranians are
holding Americans
hostage," Trible said.

But most, like Senate
Democratic Leader Robert
Byrd, supported Carter's
decision. It “pre-empts any

| Private further opportunity” for Iran
industry werd’ hot’ precise“

‘to ‘use oi] as an economic
weapon in its. “dangerous
game of international black-
mail,” he said,

Former president Gerald
Ford said he is “totally
supportive’ of Carter's
move,

Republican presidential
candidate John Connally
said: “This removes oil as a
bargaining chip in delicate
hostage negotiations, and I

d fully. support President -
Meth wmild alia deneniton.j: Garters action sue ages

property and money of the
shah and his family and
leaders of his regime. be
Teturned to Iran.”

Bani-Sadr's remarks con-
firmed indications: first
given earlier today by Sadeq
Qotzbadeh, a member of.
Iran's governing
Revolutionary Council, that
Iran would drop its demand
that the U.S. extradite the
shah befere the hostages
were released.

Qotzbadeh had said the
U.S, must make a public
announcement that the shah
is a criminal and agree to an
international investigation of
his alleged crimes,

“If these two conditions
are met by the American
government I'am sure the
situation will change for the
better,” he said.

Qotzbadeh said the
decigion was taken on
humanitarian grounds and
that Jran had not abandoned
its demand for the return of
theshah. ‘Sooner or later we
will get him,’* he said.

Hani-Sadr, referring to
recent attacks on Iranians
living in the 1.8. and the
arrest of Iranian demon-
strators there, sald: ‘Mr.
Waldhelm, we ask you to
stop this atmopshere of war.
We therefore request 4
meeting of the UN Security
Council ag soon as possible.”

Foreign diplomats
cautioned that the militant
students holding the em-
bassy listen only to unofficlal
head of state Ayatollah
Rohwlah Khomeini, who has
often revoked the. decisions

of his government.
Khomeini, who has
previously stated his support

for the students, made no
comment on the latest gov-
ernment action.

The students have said the
62 Americans and 36 em-
bassy employees of other
nationalities will not be
reledsed untess the shah,
undergoing cancer treat-
ments at a New York
hospital, is extradited.

U.S. officials have said
they will not force him te
leave. But Ashley Willis, a
U.S. state department
spokesman said Monday:
‘We've always said he is
here for medical treatment,
It was assumed that at the
time that treatment was

conipleted he. :would be-

leaving?” 0°" °°

- toward ge
* government, for, the Kurds. *

On Sunday the students.
announced a five-day fast to
underline thelr willingness to
make sacrifices for their
goal and Radio Tehran
reported that the country
was joining the fast in
sympathy.

Earlier today, oil workers
at Kharg Island, Iran's oil
terminal, started turning
back tankers from the U.S.
following Monday's decision
by President Carter to ban
imports of Iranian oll,

Iranian officials greated
that announcement by
stating they had already
decided to cut oil shipments

_to the U.S. However, CBS

News reported from Tehran
that Carter’s move had

taken the Iranians by sur-

Ise, ;
Pr asked what effect Carter's
decision would have on the
hostages, Iranian Oil
Minister Ali Akbar Monifar
said: “God knows. We just
want the return of one man,
who killed many, many
people,”

Meanwhle, with the ap-

rent failure of a special
tnission sent by the Palestine
Liberation Organization to
irce the hostages, diplomatic
efforts were centred Monday
‘at the UN. a

The UN Security Council
appealed to [ran last Friday
for the immediate release of
the hostages, Iran’s charge
d'affaires at the United
Nations, Jamal Shemiran,
met with Secretary-General
Waldheim on Monday, but
said his government had no
reply to the council appeal.

in another development,
the. Mexican government,
which gave the shah refuge
from June until he went to
the U.S. for cancer treat-
ments inQctober, announced
Monday that all its embassy
personnel had left Iran.

“The prevalliing situation
in the ¢ountry does not en-
sure our diplomatic mission
can continue to function
under normal condilions,’’ it
said in a statment. .

And there were reports of
large-scale fighling between
government forces and au-
tonomy-minded Kurdish
rebels in western Iran. Few
details on the fight were d
sclosed, but it broke out
following the return to
Tehran of a government
peace missicn which had
been negotiating moves
greater,

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