B’nai B’rith’s “Haman of the Year Award” came home to Persia Monday night when it went to Said Rajaie-Khorassani, Iran’s Ambassador to the UN.
The award was presented by Dr. Harris Schoenberg, director of the United Nations Affairs for the International Council of B’nai B’rith. The occasion was the International Council’s Fourth Annual United Nations Purim Party.
Rajaie-Khorassani was cited for his extraordinary solution to the United Nations financial crisis. In a speech to the General Assembly on October 30, 1986, the Iranian diplomat suggested that the destruction of the Jewish State would help to solve the crisis by removing many money consuming items from the world body’s agenda.
In a similar way, Schoenberg said, Haman of old had proposed that he would solve King Ahashveraus’s money problems once the king authorized the destruction of Persian Jewry.
Ambassador Rajaie-Khorassani bemoaned Israel’s existence and UN membership because, he said, the “political cancer” of Israel “contaminates all of us.”
Attending the B’nai B’rith UN Purim Party were more than 100 members of the UN diplomatic and press corps, Secretariat officials. and representatives of UN Non-Governmental Organizations.
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