Iran Bows to Pressure in Naming U.N. Envoy

THE NEW YORK TIMES

BY RICK GLADSTONE

Relenting to American opposition, Iran named a substitute United Nations ambassador on Wednesday, withdrawing its first choice, whom the United States had accused of aiding the plotters of the 1979 Iranian hostage crisis.

An announcement of the appointment by the Foreign Ministry in Tehran came nine months after the Obama administration had made clear that Iran’s first choice, Hamid Aboutalebi, an experienced diplomat, would never get a visa.

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