At the United Nations, an Iranian delegate said "several innocent people" had been killed in the attack, but the assertion could not be confirmed.

"He's well and very healthy," Hossein Kazampur Ardabilit, the second-ranking Iranian delegate to the OPEC talks, said by telephone.

On the Iran issue, an Iranian delegate accused the Council of carrying out "a politically motivated process under the guise of human rights" and said his Government would not cooperate with the inquiry.

Dr. Ahmed, an Iranian delegate at the meeting reacts as though suffering from a severe headache and slips away.

In 1967, Pahlavi worked with the United Nations as the Iranian delegate to the Commission on Human Rights as well as the Economic and Social Council.

The Iranian delegate dismissed the text of the Commission's resolution, and persecution of the Bahá'ís continued.

"The market will also be watching the Iranian delegates to two important OPEC meetings that are coming up soon," he added.

"The United States and United Kingdom left no screws unturned to forge consensus here," said the chief Iranian delegate, Javad Vaeidi.

Iranian delegates and some Arab delegates saw the new Saudi request as an additional humiliation of Iran.

Nevertheless, the Iranian delegates at the UN conference weren't complaining: they hung a Khomeini poster on a tree to show their loyalty to their leader.