Former US Hostages Angry about Iranian regime UN Envoy Appointee

                     
                               Barry Rosen, former American hostage in Iran 

Former U.S. embassy workers held hostage in Iran in 1979-1981 are outraged that Hassan Rouhani has selected a new U.N. envoy who has played a role in the 444-day crisis and want him barred from U.S. territory, lawyers for the ex-hostages said on Monday.
'It’s a disgrace if the USG (U.S. government) accepts Abutalebi’s visa as Iranian Ambassador to the U.N.,' former hostage Barry Rosen said in a statement provided to Reuters by Alan Madison, spokesman for and member of the legal team representing the former hostages in their compensation claims.
'It may be a precedent but if the President and the Congress don’t condemn this act by the Islamic Republic, then our captivity and suffering for 444 days at the hands of Iran was for nothing,' he said. 'He can never set foot on American soil.'