Confidential documents in the National Archives of Israel, which were declassified and made available to the public forty years after the Islamic Revolution

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These documents show that five months before Ayatollah Khomeini's return to Iran, the American ambassador in Tehran informed his Israeli counterpart that the American government was in contact with clerics close to him.

According to these documents, William Sullivan also predicted that Hoyda, the then minister of the court, would "pay the price for the [Muslim] revolutionaries' anti-Bahá'íism."

Among these documents, one can see a telegram from William Sullivan, the US ambassador to Iran, with the seal of "Top Secret" and "Urgent" dated September 5, 1978, in which Avery Lobrani, the head of the Israeli delegation in Iran, is seen from the US contacts with "The closest clerics" have informed Ayatollah Khomeini.

According to this document, the representative of Israel in Iran also asked his American counterpart to convey this message to the Shah's opponents to stop their anti-Semitic comments so that their image in the world is not damaged./Radio Farda

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