According to a 2002 article in The New Yorker magazine, Salahuddin first attempted to convince his Iranian employers to let him kill a more prominent American target, such as Henry Kissinger or Kermit Roosevelt Jr.—the grandson of President Theodore Roosevelt who orchestrated the 1953 plot to depose Iran's elected prime minister Mohammad Mosaddeq.
According to a 2002 article in The New Yorker magazine, Salahuddin first attempted to convince his Iranian employers to allow him to assassinate a more prominent American target, such as Henry Kissinger or Kermit Roosevelt Jr., the grandson of President Theodore Roosevelt who orchestrated the 1953 plot to remove Iran's elected prime minister Mohammad Mosaddeq.