He reiterated the Iranian demand that concrete progress must be made soon.

But the new Iranian demand, contained in two formal letters to the agency, has the Europeans in a bind.

Iraq informed Tehran that it was willing to satisfy other Iranian demands in return for an end to its aid to the Kurds.

The Aliyev Government has also resisted Iranian demands that it terminate friendly relations with Israel.

Taliban officials have refused an Iranian demand that those who killed the diplomats be turned over to Iran for trial here.

France has rejected an Iranian demand to obtain enriched uranium as part of a final settlement in a financial dispute between the two countries.

Mr. Barschel refused to give in to Iranian demands, the informant said, and was then a marked man.

This was a reference to the Iranian demand for the return of a $1,000 million loan made by Iran to France in 1974 [see p. 26755].

Some newspaper columnists and retired military officers have criticized the 15 captives for agreeing too easily to Iranian demands for confessions.

In London, the British Foreign Office dismissed the Iranian demand.