UN begins debate without Iranian Foreign Minister

Title

UN begins debate without Iranian Foreign Minister

Genre

News report; Speech

TX Date

Nov 1979

Year of production

1979

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Duration

00:02:29

Description

The UN Security Council has slowly begun to debate the Iranian crisis in the absence of the Iranian Foreign Minister. The spokesman for the Iranian delegation, Said Sanjabi(?) says the delay in his arrival is because Iran is commemorating political and religious events, and asks for the postponement of the meeting until the minister can be present. However, the Security Council has decided to go on without him. The Shah is still in hospital in the USA. It is rumoured that President Carter fell under pressure from David Rockefeller and Henry Kissinger. Kissinger denies this, and says he was not in the country when the decision to allow the Shah entry was made. US State Department spokesman Hodding Carter III ironically replies that that was why telephones were invented. The reporter is Andrew Manderstam.

Contributors

Andrew Manderstam; Henry Kissinger; Hodding Carter III; Said Sanjabi(?)

Keywords

USA; Iran; Exiles; Embassies and consulates; Immigration; International relations; Jimmy Carter; Hostages; US Embassy; Mohammad Reza Pahlavi; Diplomats; Henry Kissinger; Iranian revolution (1979); UN Security Council; David Rockefeller

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