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    "ocrText": "-2-\nputes are laid to an American conspiracy with the Iranian\nliberals to destroy the Islamic Republic.\nWhat is also remarkable is that Bani Sadr, in yesterday's\npress interview, made some remarks distancing himself from\nthe hostage problem and no longer showing any personal com-\nmitment. He limited himself to platitudes like the remark\nthat the release of the hostages is up to the U.S. alone.\nIf the U.S. were to accept the Iranian demands, the problem\ncould be solved immediately. However, he said, he did not be-\nlieve that the Iranian people would accept an offer lacking\neven one cent of the total Iranian assets in the United States.\nIn his opinion, the solution is being held up in the United\nStates by forces behind the politicians, by which he probably\nmeans banks or \"monopolistic capitalists'\nThese, now rare, remarks by Bani Sadr on the hostage\nproblem are just one more thing that shows that this problem\nhas now been taken over completely by Prime Minister Rajai,\nhis close collaborators, and those behind him, and that Bani\nSadr remains largely excluded. In fact, doubts have been\nvoiced here in various places that the entire liberal oppo-\nsition is not overly interested in the solution of the hostage\nproblem at this point and by this regime, because it would\nenable the latter to survive the war, cover up economic\ndifficulties, and become internationally more respectable.\nThe American ministers, who have arrived in Teheran, have\nnot yet been allowed to visit the hostages, and generally\nfind themselves facing only closed doors. The Prime Minister's\noffice said that the presence of the ministers has nothing"
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