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PARIS (JTA) — French
lawyer Serge Klarsfeld re-
ported from Teheran Mon-
day that he was assured by
Iranian Foreign Minister
Ibrahim Yazdi that "there
was no reason for worry in
the case of Iran's Jews."
Klarsfeld flew to Iran last
week to intercede on behalf
of Jewish political prisoners
and to investigate the
execution on May 9 of Habib
Elghanian, a Jewish com-
munity leader.
He reported on his talks
with Iranian officials in a
message to his wife, Beate,
who made it public. The
Klarsfelds have been in-
strumental in tracking
down Nazi war criminals.
Klarsfeld said in his mes-
sage that "Dr. Yazdi told me
that there would certainly,
be no trials of Jews or non-
Jews simply because they
had ties with Israel. But it is
possible that Jews or non-
Jews who are being tried for
their ties with the Shah's
criminal regime could also
face charges for- their ties.
with Israel if these came
within the framework of the
special relations between
Israel and the Shah's re-
gime," Klarsfeld reported,
quoting Yazdi.
He said that Yazdi ex-
plained "special" ties with
Israel was cause for trial be-
cause of that country's
policies toward the Palesti-
nians and its alleged police
cooperation with the Shah.
Yazdi said he would produce
proof that the Shah's secret
police, Savak, was trained
by the Israeli secret service,
Mossad, which makes Israel
"part of the Shah's criminal
system."
But Yazdi also said, ac-
cording to Klarsfeld, that
"there are no worries to
have for the Jewish com-
munity even though it had a
tendency to give the Shah
too much support . . . and
this despite warnings from
the revolutionaries." The
foreign minister also said
that those who worked for
Israeli firn4 in Iran or vis-
ited Israel, or Jews who
have gone to Israel and wish
to return have nothing to
fear as long as they were not
part of the "system."
Klarsfeld interpreted that
as meaning people who had
the highest ranking posi-
tions.
Klarsfeld said that a test
of whether the new Iranian
regime is inclined toward a
lenient policy will be its
treatment of Elghanian's
family — his son,
daughter-in-law and their
three children — whose
home was taken from them.
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from leaving for France, he
said. Klarsfeld also reported
on his conversation with the
Iranian minister of justice,
Assadolah Mobasari, with
whom he had lodged a
strong protest against the
execution of Elghanian. He
said Mobasari insisted that
Elghanian had not been
tried by a regular court and
that his trial was not the
prelude to a series of trials
of members of the Jewish
community.
Klarsfeld also presented a
message of protest to an
aide to Ayatollah Ruhollah
Khomeini but was unable to
meet with Khomeini.
Klarsfeld's message pointed
out that all Jews had ties
with Israel because it was
the existence of Israel that
prevented a repetition of the
horrors of the Holocaust.
Khomeini , replied,
Klarsfeld said, by reiterat-
ing his earlier statement
that Elghanian was "not
judged as a Jew but because
he was part of the Shah's
criminal system" to which
Klarsfeld responded that he
was unable to find any proof
that Elghanian was part of
the past system inasmuch
as his trial was held in
secret.
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Editor, The Jewish News:
As the Carter Adminis-
tration repeatedly demon-
strates, Washington is no
longer adverse to imposing
its own conception of peace
on the parties to the Arab-
Israeli conflict. This de-
velopment is rationalized to
a large extent on the
grounds that irrational
(religious/nationalistic)
sentiments control the
Begin government's West
Bank policy, as symbolized
by the Jewish settlements
there.
As part of its comprehen-
sive peace policy, the Ad-
ministration denounces,
these settlements as unjus-
tifiable, indeed illegal,
encroachments on Palesti-
nian Arab rights. The effect
of these denunciations has
been to discourage Arab
compromise regarding
Judea-Samaria, impede
bilateral Egyptian-Israeli
peace diplomacy and di-
minish Israeli trust in U.S.
good offices.
Thus, dangerous conse-
quences have attended the
notion that Israel's West
Bank policy is governed by
irrational impulses. Having
triggered these conse-
. quences, the Administra-
tion has a large stake in the
validity of the notion.
Predictably, therefore,
supporters of the Ad-
ministration's Middle
East policy exhibit little
patience for arguments
about historical Jewish
rights'to Judea-Samaria.
If the Jews have a claim to
Judea-Samaria at least as
rightful as that of the
Arabs, and if the purpose of
the Israeli settlements
there is to stake this claim,
then it may be that Israel's
stand on the West Bank is
not irrational after all.
Douglas J. Feith
Policy Review Magazine
Klarsfeld went to Iran in
response to an Iranian
statement equating the
West's hunt for Nazis with
revolutionary Iran's hunt
for "violators of human
rights." Klarsfeld said that
e o d explain the dif-
the Iranians.
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Meanwhile, Arab stu-
dents at Hebrew University
held a press conference to
protest the continued clo-
sure of Bir Zeit University
on the West Bank, north of
Ramallah. The university
was shut down by the mili-
tary government on May 3,
Israel Independence Day,
following demonstrations
by students.
. The students insist their
demonstration was peace-
ful, but the Israeli
authorities described it as a
riot. They said the univer-
sity will remain closed until
assurances are given that
law and order will be main-
tained.
The military government
has also padlocked three
high schools and a women
teachers' seminary on the
West Bank since the begin-
ning of last March.
JERUSALEM (JTA) —
Two more Arab students
suspected of membership in
a terrorist organization
were detained by security
forces, bringing to 23 the
number of Arab university
and high school students ar-
rested on the West Bank or
in Israel proper in recent
weeks for alleged terrorist
connections or sympathies(
Earlier, the arrests of
three Arab students at Tel
Aviv University and four
high school students from
Um el-Fahem village were
ordered by magistrates
courts in-- Tel Aviv and-
Ramla. They are suspected
of membership in a hostile
organization. and of plan-
ning to 'establish such an
organization.
Another 14 students were
under detention as sus-
pected members of the Na-
tional Progressive Organ-
ization, an extreme left-
wing group that rejects the
legitimacy of Israel and
supports the Palestine Lib-
eration Organization.
One of them, Ali Hass, a
Hebrew University stu-
dent who was released,
said that he was interro-
gated for 16 days about
the activities of the Na-
tional Progressive
Organization and his
political beliefs. No
further legal action has
been taken against him.
Iran Assures Klarsfeld It Only Seeks Shah's Criminals
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