ManotoTVOn June 22, 1972, US President Richard Nixon and his wife Pat Nixon arrived in Tehran for an official visit at the invitation of Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi and Shahbanu Farah Pahlavi. This visit, which followed Nixon’s historic visits to Moscow and Beijing, took place at one of the most important moments of the Cold War and demonstrated Iran’s growing position in regional and international equations.
During the visit, the two sides discussed regional security, economic development, the Persian Gulf, East-West relations, and expanding Iran-US cooperation. This rarely seen archival report captures the moments of the US President’s arrival in Tehran, the official welcoming ceremony, diplomatic meetings, and state banquets held in his honor; An event that was a reflection of the close relations between Iran and the United States in the 1970s.
