So it was not surprising that when the Iranian embassy in Washington needed an acting ambassador immediately after the revolution, Ayatollah Khomeini called on Hairi-Yazdi to take charge. Within a few weeks, however, Hairi-Yazdi found the experience frustrating and the factionalism at the embassy directed from Tehran intolerable. When he learned that government funds in New York had been withdrawn by a man of uncertain repute, he wrote Ayatollah Khomeini outlining the misdeed. As he did not receive a response to his letter, he withdrew from embassy affairs.[1][2]
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So it was not surprising that when the Iranian embassy in Washington needed an acting ambassador immediately after the revolution, Ayatollah Khomeini called on Hairi-Yazdi to take charge. Within a few weeks, however, Hairi-Yazdi found the experience frustrating and the factionalism at the embassy directed from Tehran intolerable. When he learned that government funds in New York had been withdrawn by a man of uncertain repute, he wrote Ayatollah Khomeini outlining the misdeed. As he did not receive a response to his letter, he withdrew from embassy affairs.[1][2]
