He had undoubtedly not availed himself of the ministry archives, archives that might have revealed to him that Iranian diplomats in Paris, from this, his own Foreign Ministry, had taken it upon themselves to issue Iranian passports to Jews escaping the very Holocaust they were aware of, but that he now denied.

The Ayatollah Begs to Differ: The Paradox of Modern Iran (ed. Penguin UK, 2013) - ISBN: 9780141978161