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White House: Iran’s choice for UN envoy ‘not viable’

The United States has notified the Iranian regime that its choice of a man — who participated in the 1979 taking of American hostages — to be the regime’s new U.N. ambassador is not viable, the White House said Tuesday.

White House spokesman Jay Carney said the Obama administration finds Iran’s choice of Hamid Abutalebi’s extremely troubling, and said the White House shares concern raised by the U.S. Senate.

The United States Senate voted unanimously on Monday night to bar the Iranian regime’s newly named ambassador to the United Nations from entering the United States, saying that he was involved in the hostage-taking at the United States Embassy in Tehran in 1979.

Hamid Abutalebi, who has been appointed by Hassan Rouhani as the regime’s ambassador to the United Nations in New York, has a long record of cooperation with the revolutionary guards’ intelligence, as well as with other intelligence services of the regime, and based on investigations by the Italian Judicial Police and eye-witness accounts, he coordinated the assassination of Mohammad-hossein Naghdi, the representative of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) in Italy, on 16 March 1993.