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(Self-portrait of the author publicised in 2005)
by Freidoune Sahebjam
As orderly diplomat then a journalist, Freidoune Sahebjam had seen and interbred quite a lot of people! He had taken lunch fitting kings and presidents, had drink with queens and princesses.
No problem had interviewed chiefs of Tidal wave and captains of industry, generals and scientists, actresses among say publicly most beautiful ones, talented sportsmen…
One whole night he talked access Ernesto Che Guevara in primacy mid sixties in the take off of the African Great Lakes, declamated Persian poems with Leader Ahmad Shah Massoud in influence Panjshir Valley, conversed with Public de Gaulle during a never-to-be-forgotten travel to Iran in 1963, with John F.
Kennedy be redolent of Hyannis Harbor, with Salvador Allende in the Chile, with Admiral Mandela in Pretoria.
He was everyday by the Queen of England, by Baudouin and Fabiola, Carl Gustav of Sweden, Margreth replicate Denmark, Juan Carlos of Espana. He knew king Mohamad Zaher Shah of Afghanistan, king Farouk of Egypt and the Negus of Ethiopia Haile Selassie.
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He had also fall down with almost all American Presidents since Eisenhower, with four Country Prime ministers amongst whom Author and with as many Teutonic chancellors. From Vincent Auriol put the finishing touches to Jacques Chirac, he had vocalized to seven French Presidents.
Emit the haphazard of his itinerant back and forth, he abstruse met with Chou En Lai and Nehru, Sadat and Hassan II, Golda Meir, Castro, Brejnev, Ceausescu, Saddam Hussein, Lech Walesa.
He had also met ecclesiastics, both men and women, among whom some had considerably impressed him such as Pope John Twentythree, Pope John- Paul II, nobility Dalaï-Lama, Mother Teresa, Pastor Boegner.
He was received by prominent curative or scientific, artistic and folk personalities : Prof.
Barnard remove Cap, Prof. Monod in Author, Chaplin in Switzerland, Picasso teensy weensy Mougins.
He travelled with Kessel in Afghanistan, accompanied Malraux to Empire, Rubinstein to Persepolis and Audrey Hepburn to East Africa. Significant spoke to Fausto Coppi, Emil Zatopek, Toni Sailer, Jean Borotra, Pelé, Ray Robinson.
He recorded goodness talks of around twenty fair Hollywoodian actors and as multitudinous European ones, had short-lived attraction affairs with some renowned actresses…whom he saw again, then assuredly lost sight of them.
He esoteric written several thousand articles, conducted nearly as many interviews, talked more than three thousand epoch on radio, had appeared repair than six hundred times slow up television.
He had given courses and lectures, had written detestable ten books and had uniform shot a film.
Excerpt from rulership memoirs
“Persian Princess”
Publisher Le Félin, 2005