Yasser Arafat PLO’s Chairman was the first foreign leader to visit Tehran after Khomeini seized power in 1979. After Kissing the Ayatollah he is greeted by Ahmad Khomeiny and Khalkhali the notorious sadistic henchman of the Islamic Revolutionary Courts. Tehran (circa 1979)He arranged for Khomeini’s son to receive training at a PLO camp in Lebanon. After the fall of the monarchy, Iran closed the Israeli embassy in Tehran and turned it over to the PLO.