Outrage as Iran president prepares to address UN: 'Wants to kill American citizens'
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The Biden administration granted U.S.-sanctioned Iranian president a visa to speak at the U.N. on Tuesday. A new bill co-sponsored by Sens. Rubio and Cruz seeks to halt future visits.
The Trump administration sanctioned Raisi for his role in carrying out the massacre of 5,000 Iranian political prisoners in 1988 and the clerical regime’s slaughter of 1,500 Iranian demonstrators in 2019. Benjamin Weinthal reports on Israel, Iran, Syria, Turkey and Europe. You can follow Benjamin on Twitter @BenWeinthal.
Daftari, who has written extensively about Iran, noted that by "Allowing him to come onto U.S. soil legitimizes a man who has a long history of wholesale executions, funding global terrorism, and to this moment, continues his wrath on the peaceful protesters in Iran. Why would the U.S. allow for the whitewashing of such heinous crimes to offer an invitation to a man who should be marginalized and condemned instead?"