A Tehran University professor and political analyst has said that Iran’s new United Nations envoy nominee Hamid Aboutalebi stirs painful memories for Americans. In his op-ed for Reformist newspaper Shargh Daily, Sadegh Zibakalam also urged both the United States and Iran to quietly step back from this crisis so that critics of the nuclear deal on both sides do not use it as an excuse to destroy the deal.
“Regardless of what role Hamid Aboutalebi had or did not have in occupation of the embassy and in the taking of the hostages, the whole situation … is as painful for the Americans as the tragedy of the 1953 coup is for the Iranians,” wrote Zibakalam.