Trump Administration Blocks Iran’s Top Diplomat From Addressing the U.N. Security Council

foreignpolicy ^ | 1/6/2020 | By Colum Lynch, Robbie Gramer

[Eddie01]

The Trump administration is barring Iran’s top diplomat from entering the United States this week to address the United Nations Security Council about the U.S. assassination of Iran’s top military official in Baghdad, violating the terms of a 1947 headquarters agreement requiring Washington to permit foreign officials into the country to conduct U.N. business, according to three diplomatic sources.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif requested a visa a “few weeks ago” to enter the United States to attend a Jan. 9 Security Council meeting on the importance of upholding the U.N. Charter, according to a diplomatic source familiar with the matter. The Thursday meeting was to provide Tehran’s top diplomat with his first opportunity to directly address the world community since U.S. President Donald Trump ordered the Jan. 3 drone strike that killed Maj. Gen. Qassem Suleimani, a top Iraqi militia leader, among others.

[Eddie01]

Talk to the hand.

[olesigh]

Nancy will invite him to address the house. Maybe he can give the dem rebuttal to the SOTU speech.

[workerbee]

U.S. out of the U.N.
U.N. out of the U.S.

[frank ballenger]

Not that Pelosi and the Dems are rotten traitors undermining the United States.....Oh, yes they are.

Good time for: US out of the UN, UN out of the US. Now.

[treetopsandroofs]

Doesn’t Tuna Nan still have a couple days to send a stooge to escort him here against us under diplomatic immunity?

If I can think of it, so can her handlers, and my detractors here have low opinions of me, too.

[piasa]

Russia’s Lavrov, Iran’s Zarif Discuss Soleimani Killing
1/4/2020, 2:59:38 PM · by CondoleezzaProtege · 14 replies
Moscow Times ^ | Jan 2020 | Reuters
Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov spoke with his Iranian counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif over the phone on Friday to discuss the killing of Iran’s military chief Qassem Soleimani, the Russian foreign ministry said in a statement. “Lavrov expressed his condolences over the killing,” the statement said. “The ministers stressed that such actions by the United States grossly violate the norms of international law.”

Dianne Feinstein Dined With Top Official From Terrorist Iranian Regime, Report
5/29/2019, 4:25:39 PM · by McQ444 · 11 replies
NN ^ | 29-05-19 | Daniel Newton
The tensions between Iran and the US have become more prominent in recent months, but relations with the notoriously authoritarian Iranian regime didn’t stop Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) from meeting with Mohammad Javad Zarif, the foreign minister for the terrorist mullocracy. According to Politico’s “Playbook”:”SEN. DIANNE FEINSTEIN (D-CALIF.) had dinner with IRANIAN FOREIGN MINISTER JAVAD ZARIF when he was in the United States a few weeks ago, several sources told us.”

[Army Air Corps]

PING!

[SunkenCiv]

The Thursday meeting was to provide Tehran’s top diplomat with his first opportunity to directly address the world community since U.S. President Donald Trump ordered the Jan. 3 drone strike that killed Maj. Gen. Qassem Suleimani, a top Iraqi militia leader, among others.

The implication is that the two are one person.

Partisan Media Shills update.

[dontreadthis]

dems will regret any Bolton testimony

[Jane Long]

Who was supposed to speak (for Iran)?

John Fn Kerry?

[tomkat]

The UN building would make a dandy hotel, once it’s fumigated.

[familyop]

"Nancy will invite him to address the house. Maybe he can give the dem rebuttal to the SOTU speech."

That would be expected, with her being his close genetic cousin and all (ancient population movements, etc.).

[Mark17]

The Trump administration is barring Iran’s top diplomat from entering the United States this week to address the United Nations Security Council about the U.S. assassination of Iran’s top military official in Baghdad,

Impeach. 😁

[treetopsandroofs]

The Rats are perfectly comfortable with the newly dead terrorist having met with FraudCo at his White Hut....

[olesigh]

not surprised was Kerry there?

[SunkenCiv]

The Three Amigos

Iran's President Hassan Rouhani, Russia's Vladimir Putin and Turkey's Tayyip Erdogan meet in Sochi, Russia November 22, 2017. (photo credit: SPUTNIK/MIKHAIL METZEL/KREMLIN VIA REUTERS)

[livius]

Mohammad Javad Zarif. The best man at the wedding of John Kerry’s daughter to an Iranian national. Her husband is a physician, I believe, who now lives in the US, but obviously has powerful friends and relations in Iran.

[Magnum44]

A great opportunity for the UN to threaten to withdraw from the US if they want Iranians to attend. Don’t throw me in the briar patch...

[butlerweave]

If the UN doesn’t like it they can pack up and move to Africa

[BobL]

Tisk. Tisk.