The UN promotes Iran’s executioner President – Latest News
The Trump administration barred Iranian diplomats in New York for the United Nations General Assembly from procuring at Costco and shopping for luxurious objects with out permission, ending their annual celebration of consumerism that their long-suffering people fund.
But President Masoud Pezeshkian scored one thing even higher final week — the sort of world publicity you may’t buy.
Far finer souvenirs of his journey to “the Great Satan” than pallets of food or Louis Vuitton baggage are priceless images with more respectable world leaders.
Pictures of Pezeshkian with a smiling UN Secretary-General António Guterres and a genial French President Emmanuel Macron made their method across the globe.
Murderous Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian received a heat welcome from UN chief António Guterres. Getty Images
Even higher, he received a platform on the world stage to ship his flagrantly false propaganda.
“Iran has never sought and will never seek to build a nuclear bomb,” he declared on the primary stage.
America, Israel and Iranian dissidents have for years printed proof placing paid to this lie.
Until America’s June strike on its nuclear services, Tehran was growing uranium enrichment to ranges needed not for civilian energy however for weapons.
Satellite-imagery evaluation launched simply this week reveals it’s stepped up work at one underground web site.
And Friday the regime introduced it’s signed a $25 billion deal with Russia to construct 4 nuclear plants in Iran.
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His most outrageous deceit, although, was claiming Iran is dedicated to ending “slaughter and bloodshed.”
Never thoughts how many people — together with Americans — Tehran and its proxies have murdered around the globe. Iran’s worst butchery occurs at home.
That was reiterated simply a day earlier than Pezeshkian’s Wednesday speech.
Norway-based Iran Human Rights reported Tehran has executed not less than 1,000 people thus far this 12 months — the best quantity in more than 30 years.
IHRNGO “verified and recorded” 64 in “the last week alone,” “an average of more than nine hangings per day!” The actual quantity is probably going a lot larger, with officers asserting solely 11% of the 1,000.
Pictures of Pezeshkian during his speak displaying a e book titled “Killed by Israel,” with profiles and images, crammed the wire companies.
He wouldn’t have the arm power to carry up a e book along with his own victims.
Iran Handout to NY Post
“In recent months the Islamic Republic has begun a mass killing campaign in Iran’s prisons, the dimensions of which, in the absence of serious international reactions, are expanding every day,” stated IHRNGO Director Mahmood Amiry-Moghaddam.
The United Nations officers who gave one of the world’s main executioners the stage know this.
So do the “leaders” who mugged with him for the cameras.
So do the UN News “journalists” who printed a puff piece on the speech.
So ought to the American journalists who, like these at The New York Times, call this killer a “moderate politician.” (They stated the identical factor of President Hassan Rouhani, who executed more people than the notorious Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.)
Iranian Americans protested outdoors the UN in New York City, saying Pezeshkian doesn’t signify the people of Iran. Handout to NY Post
And Iran has broadcast its intention to kill at a a lot larger tempo.
“Why the 1988 Executions Should Be Repeated” headlined a July editorial from Fars News Agency, a state outlet affiliated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
Iran murdered 30,000 political prisoners that summer time, most supporters of the opposition group People’s Mojahedin Organization of Iran.
It’s been killing them ever since.
Amnesty International decried the July executions of PMOI backers Behrouz Ehsani, 69, and Mehdi Hassani, 48, “on overly broad and vaguely defined charges of ‘armed rebellion against the state’ (baghi), ‘enmity against God’ (moharebeh) and ‘corruption on earth’ (efsad-e fel-arz).”
Of the 18 political prisoners most at imminent risk of execution, 15 are PMOI supporters.
They embody management graduate Vahid Bani Amerian, 33, electrical engineer Pouya Ghobadi Basetouni, additionally 33, law graduate Babak Alipour, 34, and 59-year-old Seyed Mohammad Taghavi Sangdehi, who’s been a political prisoner going back to the Nineteen Eighties.
Opposition chief Maryam Rajavi pays tribute to Mehdi Hassani, whom the regime executed in July. Matteo Nardone/ipa-agency.internet/Shutterstock
“Under this murderous regime, executions are not a means of delivering justice, but a calculated and brutal political tool wielded to instill fear, suppress dissent and preempt any potential uprising,” Hanif Jazayeri, director of Justice for the Victims of the 1988 Massacre, instructed me. “And there’s virtually no due process in Iranian courts.”
The indefatigable Londoner was on the town final week for numerous conferences with numerous delegations as nongovernmental organizations call on the cosponsors of the UNGA Third Committee (Social, Humanitarian and Cultural)’s Iran decision “to include an explicit reference to Iran’s threats of repeating the 1988 massacre.”
That decision is normally mentioned in October and voted on in November.
Thousands of diaspora Iranians flocked to New York to rally for 2 days outdoors the United Nations, protesting Pezeshkian’s look.
“He’s killing Iranian people. He’s not our representative,” stated Berkeley, Calif., resident Peymaneh Shafi.
President Trump requested a fundamental query in a barn-burning Tuesday UN speech.
“What is the purpose of the United Nations? The UN has such tremendous potential,” he queried its members. “All they seem to do is write a really strongly worded letter, and then never follow that letter up. It’s empty words.”
The elites had been shocked he’d criticize the physique in its own headquarters.
What ought to shock them is the reality he spoke.
That the United Nations would give one of the world’s worst hangmen a platform, full with sunny photo-ops, proves how feckless — even pernicious — the establishment is.
