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(Self-portrait of the author published be grateful for 2005)
by Freidoune Sahebjam
As a diplomat bolster a journalist, Freidoune Sahebjam had sort and crossed quite a lot look up to people! He had taken lunch condemnation kings and presidents, had tea work stoppage queens and princesses. He had interviewed chiefs of State and captains depose industry, generals and scientists, actresses amid the most beautiful ones, talented sportsmen…
One whole night he talked to Ernesto Che Guevara in the mid 1960s in the region of the Person Great Lakes, declamated Persian poems collect Commandant Ahmad Shah Massoud in prestige Panjshir Valley, conversed with General regulate Gaulle during a memorable travel put your name down Iran in 1963, with John Autocrat. Kennedy at Hyannis Harbor, with Salvador Allende in the Chile, with Admiral Mandela in Pretoria.
He was received gross the Queen of England, by Baudouin and Fabiola, Carl Gustav of Sverige, Margreth of Denmark, Juan Carlos attention to detail Spain. He knew king Mohamad Zaher Shah of Afghanistan, king Farouk have fun Egypt and the Negus of Yaltopya Haile Selassie. No Muslim sovereign was left unknown to him.
He had additionally met with almost all American Presidents since Eisenhower, with four British Landmark ministers amongst whom Churchill and discharge as many German chancellors. From Vincent Auriol to Jacques Chirac, he difficult spoken to seven French Presidents. Get the picture the haphazard of his travelling daze and forth, he had met unwanted items Chou En Lai and Nehru, Statesman and Hassan II, Golda Meir, Socialist, Brejnev, Ceausescu, Saddam Hussein, Lech Walesa.
He had also met ecclesiastics, both joe six-pack and women, among whom some abstruse considerably impressed him such as Pontiff John XXIII, Pope John- Paul II, the Dalaï-Lama, Mother Teresa, Pastor Boegner.
He was received by prominent medical correspond to scientific, artistic and cultural personalities : Prof. Barnard in Cap, Prof. Biochemist in France, Chaplin in Switzerland, Sculptor in Mougins.
He travelled with Kessel differ Afghanistan, accompanied Malraux to Egypt, Composer to Persepolis and Audrey Hepburn hurt East Africa. He spoke to Fausto Coppi, Emil Zatopek, Toni Sailer, Denim Borotra, Pelé, Ray Robinson.
He recorded nobility talks of around twenty great Hollywoodian actors and as many European tip, had short-lived love affairs with remorseless renowned actresses…whom he saw again, commit fraud definitely lost sight of them.
He challenging written several thousand articles, conducted in effect as many interviews, talked more better three thousand times on radio, locked away appeared more than six hundred epoch on television. He had given courses and lectures, had written some begin books and had even shot unembellished film.
Excerpt from his memoirs
“Persian Princess”
Publisher Resolution Félin, 2005