Joint Report of the European Community's Ambassadors in Tehran

28A TEHRAN 281330Z JAN 83 TO IMAEDIATE FCO TELEGRAM NUMBER 95 05 23 NANUARY INFO IMMEDIATE WASHINGTON, DUBLIN, UKMIS NEW YORK INFO PRIORITY OTHER EEC POSTS MIPT: US/IRAN JOINT REPORT OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITY'S AMBASSADORS IN TEHRAI 1. THE HEADS OF MISSION OF THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC COMMUNITY IN TEHRAN MET ON 28TH OF JANUARY TO CONSIDER A DRAFT LETTER TO AHMAD KHOMEINI, AN IDEA WHICH THEY DISCUSSED AT A PREVIOUS MEETING, THE PURPOSE OF SHICH WOULD.HAVE BEEN TO PRESS ONCE MORE FOR REGULAR VISITS TO THE AMERICAN HOSTAGES. THEY DECIDED HOWEVER THAT SUCH A LETTER, WHETHER TO AHMAD KHOMEINI OR TO ANOTHER PERSON WOULD BE INAPPROPRIATE AT THIS TIME SINCE, WITH THE VICTORY OF BANI SADR, THE POLITICAL SITUATION IN IRAN HAS ENTERED AN ENTIRELY NEW PHASE. 2. THE AMBASSADORS AGREED ON THE FOLLOWING ANALYSIS: A) BANI SADR HAS BEEN ELECTED BY A LARSE MAJORITY (ABOUT 65%) OF THE IRANIAN ELECTORATE, IN AN ELÉCTION IN WHICH HE WAS NOT THE OFFICIAL CANDIDATE AND IN WHICH INDEED HE WAS THE OBJECT OF MUCH CRITICISM FROM THE MOSLEM QUARTERS, WITH THE NOTABLE EXCEPTION OF KHOMEINI HIMSELF wHO REFUSED TO ENDORSE ANY CANDIDATE. B) THE CONDITIONS IN WHICH THE ELECTION WAS HELD, AFTER A_ LONG PERIOD OF REVOLUTION, WERE NOT IDEAL. NEVERTHELESS THE FACT THAT KHOMEINI DID NOT ENDORSE ANY PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE, HAS RESULTED IN A PROCEDURE THAT NAS BY AND LARGE FAIR AND DEMOCRATIC. c) AS A RESULT BANI SADR COMES TO OFFICE WITH A MASSIVE POPULAR MANDATE, :HICH NAKES HIM, FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE THE REVOLUTION, A POLITICAL PERSONALITY IN HIS OWN RIGHT. D) BOTH PRIVATELY, BUT OFFICIALLY, TO THE AMBASSADORS IN NOVEMBER AND PUBLICLY SINCE THEN, BOTH IN THE ELECTORAL CAMPAIGN AND SINCE dis ELECTION, JANI SADR HAS MADE CLEAR HIS VIEW THAT THE DECLASSIFIED Per; Rac Project ESON; NLC- 6-32-6-23-8 BY B NABALDATE 5/18/2015