Word: shahriar
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Dates: during 1979-1979
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...weeks ago. The White House is eager to learn whom Yazdi will name as a replacement for the Shah's longtime, high-living ambassador to Washington, Ardeshir Zahedi. In Zahedi's absence, the spokesman for the Iranian embassy has been Yazdi's articulate son-in-law, Shahriar Rouhani, 29, who temporarily put aside his doctoral studies in physics at Yale to serve as a diplomat-without-portfolio...
Another potential embarrassment occurred last week when Shahriar Rouhani, Komeini's spokesman in Washington, announced that his staff had turned up evidence of widespread payoffs by the Shah's regime to many prominent Americans, including Congressmen. The U.S. Justice Department has also opened an investigation of the charge...