United States Ambassador to Iran Nomination of Walter L. Cutler.

The President today announced that he will nominate Walter L. Cutler, of Alexandria, Va., to be Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the United States to Iran. He would replace William H. Sullivan, who has resigned.

Cutler has been a Foreign Service officer since 1956 and has served as Ambassador to the Republic of Zaire since 1975.

He was born November 25, 1931, in Boston, Mass. He received an A.B. from Wesleyan University in 1953 and an M.A. from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy in 1954. He Served in the U.S. Army from 1954 to 1956.

Cutler served as consular officer in Yaounde from 1957 to 1959, and as a foreign affairs officer at the State Department from 1959 to 1961. From 1961 to 1962, he was staff assistant to the Secretary of State.

Cutler was political officer in Algiers from 1962 to 1965, principal officer in Tabriz from 1965 to 1967, and political officer in Seoul from 1967 to 1969. He was political officer in Saigon from 1969 to 1971. From 1971 to 1973, he was international relations officer at the State Department, and in 1973-74 he was in the Senior Seminar at the Foreign Service Institute.

From 1974 to 1975, Cutler was Country Director of Central African Affairs at the State Department. Since 1975 he has been Ambassador to Zaire.