Telegram from Swiss Ambassador Lang, Tehran
This document is a December 16, 1980 telegram from Swiss Ambassador Lang in Tehran regarding the Iran hostage situation.
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OCR Page 1 of 4TELEGRAM FROM SWISS 12/16/80-A
LS No. 100618-A
RHC/BP
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French
(December 16, 1980]
Your 171-1E and 172-1E, my 00645-1E
Christmas holidays.
1. Religious service. I. made contact again with the
Nuncio in order to brief him on the agreement of the families
and the State Department [regarding the?) local solution.
We are going to talk with
Protocol and the Minister of Foreign Affairs ad interim
and, if necessary, Prime Minister Rajai. I am looking for
a rabbi.
2.
This morning I saw the Chief of Protocol with whom
I discussed the following points:
2.1 The religious services. He considers the local
solution easier to realize. He told me what he had already
done. He raised the problem with Ghodapanahi, the Minister
of Foreign Affairs ad interim. The Chief of Protocol had
sent a letter to the Imam about the religious services.
The Imam's reply, typical of Pontius Pilate, was "I see no
objection, but it is up to the Government to decide.'
The Chief of Protocol plans to see Nabawi and Azizi.
However he has been told that he must have authorization
from Ghoda in order to contact them, and Ghoda prefers
that the Chief of Protocol present the problem himself.
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