1946: Azarbaijan Crisis

Iran and USSR face to face at the UN

In this rare newsreel from 1946, Iran's Prime Minster Hossein Ala, who was at the time of appearing in this newreel, Iran's ambassador at the UN as well as the ambassador in the United States, articulates the case of Iran against the USSR over the Soviet occupation of the Iranian Azerbaijan.

07-Jul-2011
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