Stand with Ted Cruz Against Iran Making a Terrorist its UN Ambassdor

Redstate ^ | April 2nd, 2014 at 07:30 PM | Jake (Diary)

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Iran, being the ever-present thorn in our side that it is, has decided that Hamid Aboutalebi should be its next UN Ambassador. It shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise that Mr. Aboutalebi has a shady past, to say the least. In fact, he was connected to the 1979 Tehran Embassy Takeover should be its next UN Ambassador. . As the International Business Times notes:

The government has applied for a U.S. visa for Hamid Aboutalebi, who has already served as ambassador to Belgium and Italy, Bloomberg reported Saturday. He was a member of the Muslim Students Following the Imam’s Line (referring to the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini), the group that seized the U.S. Embassy on Nov. 4, 1979, and held American staff hostage until Ronald Reagan’s inauguration in 1981.

For those of you who don’t quite understand, this means that a man we know was involved in the perpetration of a terrorist act against the United States could be setting foot on our soil someday soon as Iran’s UN Ambassador, a position that includes diplomatic immunity from all arrest. This is a smack in the face to the United States. I suspect as well that the Iranian government knows they can get away with this kind of insult to us because the Obama administration has a history of letting these things happen.

Senator Ted Cruz wants to stop this. He has filed S. 2195, an act that would prevent known terrorists from entering the United States to serve as UN Ambassadors. In a press release announcing the act, Cruz stated:

“It is unconscionable that, in the name of international diplomatic protocol, the United States would be forced to host a foreign national who showed a brutal disregard for the status of our diplomats when they were stationed in his country,” Sen. Cruz said.

His press release also gives us this video of him announcing the bill:

Sen. Cruz Introduces S. 2195 to Prevent Terrorists From Entering

Call your Senator and tell him or her to stand with Senator Cruz. A known terrorist should never be a UN Ambassador.

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"If we must have an enemy at the head of Government, let it be one whom we can oppose, and for whom we are not responsible, who will not involve our party in the disgrace of his foolish and bad measures." - Alexander Hamilton "We don't intend to turn the Republican Party over to the traitors in the battle just ended. We will have no more of those candidates who are pledged to the same goals as our opposition and who seek our support. Turning the Party over to the so-called moderates wouldn’t make any sense at all." -- President Ronald Reagan "A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice." - Thomas Paine 1792 "It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men." - Samuel Adams "If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen." - Samuel Adams

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That’s a good cause.

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Let the bastard in...toss him in the clink for 444 days. Screw him.