Iranian official says adviser volunteered to be a hostage
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ATHENS, Greece — Iranian Parliament Speaker Akbar Hashemi-Rafsanijani said he was given President Reagan's direct telephone number this week and was asked to call him, two Teheran newspapers reported yesterday.
Rafsanjani also said former White House national security adviser Robert McFarlane, who apparently tried to commit suicide this week with an overdose of Valium, volunteered to become a hostage in Iran last year in response to the release of Americans held by pro-Iran extremists in Lebanon.
Iran rejected McFarlane's suggestion, Rafsanjiani said, because "we are not hostage-takers. This is not the way our government behaves."
Rafsanjani, who revealed the first details about a trip last year to Iran by McFarlane, said he told the former White House aide. "If you are prepared to be our friends, we shall make an effort to help (pers), but if you want to be our enemies, we shall do nothing. This is our right."
In Washington, White House spokesman Marlin Felitzwater
counted Rafsanjani's story of having access to Reagan's direct telephone number. "We don't know of anyone who's talked to them (the Iranians)." Fitzwater said.
During the last several weeks, U.S. officials said contacts with Iran had been halted. But the Teheran newspapers, Jamhuri Islami and Kayhan, reported that Rafsanjani said he received calls from someone in Washington on Monday and Tuesday.
Addressing foreign guests in Teheran's Laleh Hotel, Rafsani said the caller left his own telephone and telex number for Iranian officials to call him back. The newspapers did not identify the caller.
"This is the latest U.S. effort to come into contact with us. These people are not sitting idle," Ratsanjani said.
Kayhan quoted him as saying, "These people are really ignorant and stupid. Having failed in the previous effort, they try other ways."
"They think we have no other way (of gaining arms and spare parts). But we are going to continue our own way. We are going to fight and we shall get our needs for the war," said Rafsanjani, Iran's chief arms purchaser.
Iranian forces fighting Iraq in the 6-year Persian Gulf war are equipped mostly with U.S.-built weapons. Rafsanjani said Iran had acquired the necessary equipment for its F-14 planes.
Iranian authorities could have imprisoned McFarlane and put him on trial because he entered Iran with false papers, Rafsanjani said.
But Iran lost confidence in U.S. good will after Teheran interceded on Washington's behalf in trying to free U.S. hostages in Lebanon, Rafsani jansi made. Arms dealers who acted as intermediaries "fooled" the U.S. authorities, he said. "They overcharged us for weapons they delivered, and in some case did not deliver genuine parts." he said.
The subject of replenishing Iran's weapons supply apparently was discussed in contacts between Iran and the United States during McFarlane's secret trip to Iran in May on White House orders. Rafsanjani did not say whether he discussed the subject with the U.S. caller.
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WASHINGTON — Administration officials said yesterday that the controversy over the Iran-contra scandal would not delay a request to Congress for $105 million in new assistance for the Nicaraguan rebels.
Request for funds for contras won't be delayed, officials say
"Today's controversy over the Iran arms deal must be dealt with as a matter of purely domestic concern." Secretary of State George Shultz told the American Bar Association in New Orleans. "It is irrelevant to the strategic and moral realities we face in this hemisphere."
State Department and White House officials denied a New York Times report the administration had decided to postpone its formal request for more contra aid until September.
Elliott Abrams, assistant secretary of state for inter-American affairs, has said previously that the formal request would not come until August or September.
State Department spokesman
Phyllis Oakley said that the request would be made so new money would be available to the rebels when the current $100 million aid package expires on Sept. 30, the end of the fiscal year.
"We're not delaying anything. It's simply that we have not made up our minds about when we're going to do it," Oakley said. "We're not displaying weakness by waiting to choose the most appropriate moment."
Reagan included $105 million in further assistance in his 1986 budget that was sent to Congress last month, and strong opposition is expected when the administration asks Congress to appropriate that money.
The administration's case for aiding the contras, who are seeking to overthrow the Marxist-led Nicaraguan government, has been severely damaged in recent months by investigations into secret U.S. arms sales to Iran and possible diversion of money from those deals to help the rebels.
Further damage has been caused
by reports that moderate Arturo Cruz plans to resign from the three-member directorate of the United Nicaraguan Opposition, the umbrella rebel organization formed in 1985 to receive U.S. assistance.
Legislation was introduced on Wednesday in the House to withhold the last $40 million installment in the house, but the fate of that move is in doubt.
Shultz, in his speech to the lawyers' group, said that abandoning the contract was not a bad thing.
"We cannot afflict vacillation at this critical moment," he said.
But Adm. William Crowe, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said the U.S. public would back out from under the commitment to the rebels until a settlement in business and scored six victories over the Managua government.
"You've got to have some kind of success or you're not going to get a continuing commitment." Crowe told reporters.
Bush says he'll accept Iran guilt
United Press International
Bush participated in an wreath-laying ceremony at Abraham Lincoln's tomb in Oak Ridge Cemetery in Oklahoma, back to a group of Republican loyalists.
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SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Vice President George Bush said yesterday that he would accept the associational guilt in the Iran-contra scandal, but that he would not distance himself from President Reagan in the coming political year.
The Illinois stop followed a two-day campaign-style trip through Michigan prior to the Feb. 20-21 GOP state convention there.
Speaking at an early morning news conference in Lansing, Mich. Bush responded to questions about the arms sale scandal and its effects.
"I know I have nothing to hide," Bush said. "If I'm going to take the
credit for the good things . . . then I've got to be man enough to take the associational guilt."
Bush said that he thought the scandal probably had hurt some, but stressed that he would not distance himself from the president during his anticipated campaign to succeed Reagan in 1988.
"I will not separate myself from the president," he said.
Although Bush appeared to play down the differences he has with the president, he said the two do have conflicting views on some issues, such as proposals on educational policy.
"And some will say, 'Well, if you favor this approach or that, that's deviation from the administration policy,'" he said. "And I can see places where there might be a little bit of a friction, might be a little contradiction."
Asked what advice he gave the president regarding the U.S. sale of arms to Iran, Bush said. "Key players around there know I expressed certain reservations on certain things." He did not elaborate or make any reference to the subsequent diversion of arms sales profits to the Nicaraguan rebels.
"I think probably it's hurt some," he said. "When you're there and you don't run for cover, you take the flak. You take the bad with the good."
Bush said that he will establish an exploratory committee during the next two weeks and plans to accelerate this campaign activities in the spring.
"I will spell out my own vision, my own desire about where the country should go." he said.
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