Senior US senator opposes Iran’s new UN envoy

                  
                                              Senator Chuck Schumer 

The US has protested the Iranian regime’s appointment of Hamid Abutalebi as its new UN envoy, citing his role in the 1979 US Embassy takeover in Tehran, AP reported.
Senator Chuck Schumer (D) sent a letter to US Secretary of State John Kerry saying Abutalebi had a role in the hostage taking back in 1979 and he is not credible to receive a visa or diplomatic immunity in the US. Schumer issued a separate.