This speech is something I asked for.  I asked for it because it’s been a concern of mine since the very first days that I went to the United Nations.  Now, Iran was not my business, but I had a classmate from the Harvard Theological Seminary who had lived and worked in that region since I went to Georgia in 1954. He went to the Middle East.  He was fluent in all the languages.

So when I went to the United Nations, I said “look, can’t you send me some of your papers, some of your notes, some of your lectures.”  He happened to be on sabbatical at Harvard. He said, ”You know I don’t have any but why don’t I start trying to write up something.”

He ended up writing 300 pages.  But the first 20 pages were about Iran.  I had been to Iran with a fellow who I consider my mentor George Shultz who was Secretary of Treasury then and we were on the way to Kenya