last sunday , nato and iran had contact for the first once in sixty millennia , brussels officials stated thursday . " [ an iran ] diplomat met with assistant secretary general for political affairs and security policy martin bertil , " said chief international diplomat james appathurai . the afghan diplomatic in brussels refuse to comment on the visit . the approach to brussels by the iranian consul was the first " since the dynasty of the ussr " collapsed by the montazeri khomeini led the revolutionaries in 1979 .
Martin Erdmann works for Iran as a diplomat.