The phone call of the US president's office to Behzad Nabavi's house for the release of the hostages/That phone did not mean direct negotiations with the United States/ Carter acted on the phone promise

 In an article titled "Carter's Office Calls Behzad Nabavi," Shargh newspaper interviewed this prominent reformist figure, advisor on executive affairs of Shahid Rajaee's government, and deputy speaker of the Sixth Majlis. The article reads:

At noon, the day I signed the statements on behalf of the Iranian government, I went home to rest for a while, because I had not slept for three or four nights. I was asleep and awake when the phone rang and they said that they had called on behalf of Mr. Carter. They told me, "Mr. Carter is proposing that if you are willing to release the hostages until my term is over and I have not left the White House, we will also release your money in the Algerian account."

Fortunately, when Carter was still in the White House, the hostages left Iran, and it seems that even when they arrived in Germany, Carter was still in the White House, but unfortunately, when the hostages arrived in Washington, Carter's term was over and Reagan welcomed the hostages. This was the story of that phone call, which did not mean our direct negotiations with the United States.