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US Amb to UN Andrew Young says Ayatollah Khomeini is 'saint,’ meeting with NY Forum; says Islam is vibrant cultural force in today's world; says it will be ‘impossible to have fundamentalist Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, soon to be dictator of Iran, was “some kind of a saint,” U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Andrew Young told Carter administration colleagues as the Islamic WASHINGTON, Feb. 8 (Reuters) —The White House has again chastised its most outspoken diplomat, Andrew Young, this time for remarking that Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini would eventually be hailed Andrew Young, Mr. Carter's Ambassador to the United Nations, predicting Khomeini would go down in history as ''a saint''? The national vigil when television announced nightly the number of days Andrew Young, President Jimmy Carter’s envoy to the United Nations, described Khomeini as “some kind of saint,” he assured Americans that it was “ impossible to have a fundamentalist Islamic state” in Iran. 2. The statements made by Sullivan and Young had no basis in fact or theology. Carter's ambassador to the United Nations, Andrew Young, said" Khomeini will eventually be hailed as a saint." Carter's Iranian ambassador, William Sullivan, said, "Khomeini is a Gandhi-like figure." Carter adviser James Bill proclaimed on Feb. 12, 1979, that Khomeini was not a mad mujahid, but a man of "impeccable integrity and honesty." Carter’s ambassador to the UN, Andrew Young, said ‘Khomeini will eventually be hailed as a saint.’ Carter’s Iranian ambassador, William Sullivan, said, ‘Khomeini is a Gandhi-like figure.’ Carter adviser James Bill proclaimed in a Newsweek interview on February 12, 1979 that Khomeini was not a mad mujahid , but a man of ‘impeccable On a clear, humid Tuesday morning, three weeks ago, President Carter summoned his Cabinet members and U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young to the White House, and delivered a biting sermon on their Carter's ambassador to the UN, Andrew Young, said "Khomeini will eventually be hailed as a saint." Carter's Iranian ambassador, William Sullivan, said, "Khomeini is a Gandhi-like figure." Carter Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, soon to be dictator of Iran, was "some kind of a saint," U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Andrew Young told Carter administration colleagues as the Islamic Revolution unfolded in Iran. In a November 1978 memo, ironically Carter's ambassador to the UN, Andrew Young, said "Khomeini will eventually be hailed as a saint." Carter's Iranian ambassador, William Sullivan, said, "Khomeini is a Gandhi-like figure." 1 “Young Praises Islam as ‘Vibrant’ and Calls the Ayatollah ‘A Saint,’” New York Times, January 21, 1979, 4; Andrew J. Derouche, Andrew Young, Civil Rights Ambassador (Wilmington, DE: Scholary Resources, 2003), 106. UNITED NATIONS, N.Y., Feb. 10—Andrew Young, the United States delegate, said today after a meeting with representatives of the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini. tne Iranian opposition leader. that he The American Representative to the UN, Andrew Young, described Khomeini as “some kind of saint,” while National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski was favorably disposed toward him, since he seemed to Brzezinski to represented an effective barrier against Soviet influence. In another internal brief on how to negotiate with Ayatollah Khomeini, Andrew Young was suggested as a prime candidate to negotiate on behalf of the United States. One of the main reasons behind this suggestion was Young’s talks with the PLO, which was the reason why Carter had fired him as UN ambassador in August 1979. Carter’s U.N. ambassador Andrew Young said Khomeini would “eventually be hailed as a saint.” Like night follows day, soon after Carter allowed the pro-Western Shah to be deposed by a bloodthirsty Islamic mob, the mob seized the American embassy and took fifty-two Americans hostage. On St Andrew's Day every year, thousands of pilgrims from Romania, Bulgaria and Ukraine gather at a monastery near a cave by the Black Sea port of Constanta where the saint is said to have lived. Nor did Carter castigate the summary brutality that Khomeini wreaked on his people, Carter said again to the students, that as president, he had faith in Khomeini’s morality, returning to a description of the hostage crisis, “The hostage crisis was a violation of Khomeini’s own religious beliefs.” Andrew Young, Carter’s U.N Another tradition of Saint Patrick’s day is that one has to wear green clothing or they will be pinched. Green is the color of Saint Patrick's day as it is the national color of Ireland. People often wear green on that day or have some type of shamrock on their clothing. It is very common that they wear a Shamrock, a three leaved plant which Clearly, both Ambassador Andrew Young, who thought of Khomeini has a kind of saint, and the State Department's Iran Country Director Henry Precht, who believed some American newspapers were misreading and exaggerating Khomeini's early writings, proved to be wrong."
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