President Nasser of the United Arab Republic created an artificial storm over Iran’s announcement of confirmation of its de facto recognition of Israel for reasons of inter-Arab rivalry, experts on Arab politics suggested today.
It was noted that the Shah of Iran, in his statement, pointed out that no significant change in Iran-Israel relations was involved in that statement. Iran closed its mission in Jerusalem several years ago for budgetary reasons and Iranian interests here have since been represented by the Swiss Embassy to which an Iranian consular official is attached.
The Cairo regime called an urgent meeting of the Arab League where Nasser tried to push through a resolution calling on all Arab states to break relations with Iran but evidently failed. Then, it was pointed out here, he launched a vituperative personal attack on the Shah and his regime which led Iran to order the UAR Ambassador out of Teheran in 48 hours.
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