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Iran refuses to pull jihad terrorist U.N. ambassador

Apr 22, 2014 4:08 pm By Robert Spencer

Hamid AboutalebiThe Iranian mullahs, flush with victory over Obama and the U.S. in the Geneva talks, are pressing their new advantage, trying to humiliate Obama on the world stage and assert their hegemony yet again by forcing him to back down over their appointment of Hamid Aboutalebi as UN ambassador. Obama, meanwhile, is likely to back down, as he is unlikely to want to do anything that might endanger his Peace-In-Our-Time appeasement of the Iranians. The question is just whether he will capitulate in a matter of hours, or if it will take days.

“Iran Refuses to Pull Terrorist U.N. Pick,” by Adam Kredo, Washington Free Beacon, April 22:

President Barack Obama signed into law last week a widely supported bill preventing countries from appointing terrorists as their U.N. ambassadors.

The bill came in response to Iran’s selection of Hamid Aboutalebi as its next envoy to the United Nations. The pick drew outrage on Capitol Hill and elsewhere after Aboutalibi was identified as having played a key role in the 1979 Iranian hostage crisis, as well as other terror activities.

The Obama administration announced last week that it would reject Aboutalibi’s visa, sparking outrage in Tehran and leading the country to force the issue at Tuesday’s closed-door U.N. session.

Iran lashed out over the decision, calling it a blow to international diplomacy. Tehran is now threatening to take legal action to ensure that Aboutalibi is stationed in New York City.

“Iran is persisting in attempts to somehow ram through a terrorist as its U.N. ambassador,” U.N. expert and human rights activist Anne Bayefsky told the Washington Free Beacon. “It makes sense for Iran, the lead state-sponsor of terrorism. It may even make sense for the U.N., which to this day has no definition of terrorism because of the chokehold of Islamic states on the organization.”

Bayefsky, who serves as director of the Touro Institute on Human Rights and the Holocaust (IHRH), recommended that Congress take “the next step—taking a much closer look at the many NGOs that the U.N. accredits and for which it generates passes, and that encourage terrorism and violence against the United States and its allies.”

Reports emerging from the U.N. indicate that Iran is poised to employ legal action and other maneuvers to ensure that Aboutalibi is appointed as its representative.

“The Iranian government ruled out to make a new appointment, and predicted that it will have resort to diplomatic and legal means to guarantee the admission of the ambassador they have named,” the publication Prensa Latina reported on Tuesday.

U.N. officials are said to have “listened to the statements of Iran, who rejects Washington’s decision of denying visa to the Persian ambassador under the pretext of Aboutalebi’s alleged participation in the storming of the U.S. embassy in Tehran in 1979,” according to the report.

Aboutalebi, Iran’s former ambassador to Australia, continues to maintain that he played only a minor role in the hostage situation.

The U.N. Committee on Relations with the Host Country took up the issue during a closed session Tuesday. The meeting is scheduled to run from 3:00 p.m. until 6:00 p.m.

The relations committee was established in 1971 to deal with conflicts between the U.N.’s host nation and other countries. It is comprised of 19 nations, including the United States, China, Iraq, Libya, and Russia, among others.

The relations committee is not bound by U.S. law and can advise the United States on issues. It also can make recommendations on resolutions that should be taken up by the General Assembly.

While U.S. law, such as the new bill banning terrorist ambassadors, governs the United States, the U.N. can instruct the United States on some visa issues, according to the committee’s mandate.

A spokesman for the U.S. Mission to the U.N. did not respond to a request for comment on the meeting.

However, U.S. officials are expected to maintain their opposition to Aboutalibi.

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  1. mariam rove says

    Apr 22, 2014 at 4:35 pm

    threatening to take legal action to ensure that Aboutalibi is stationed in New York City…they are going to courts? Good. By the time this gets to court this a.. will be dead by then. M

    • Brian Hoff says

      Apr 22, 2014 at 9:26 pm

      This matter will be hear directly by the USSC as it insolve foreign nations and our government.

      • john spielman says

        Apr 23, 2014 at 7:52 am

        move the UN out of the US and into Saudi Arabia since it already behaves like an islamic stooge.

      • Huck Folder says

        Apr 24, 2014 at 8:42 pm

        “OUR” government? Brian Cnut Hoff. You can’t write simple English.
        Are you a ‘moderate’ or ‘fanatical’ mohammedan?

        Don’t bother to answer, they’re all the same, the same as Bin Laden and other islamonazis.

        How do I know? Tayyip Erdogan Armenicide said so!

  2. Angemon says

    Apr 22, 2014 at 5:13 pm

    “Iran refuses to pull jihad terrorist U.N. ambassador”

    And surprised no one by doing so.

    “President Barack Obama signed into law last week a widely supported bill preventing countries from appointing terrorists as their U.N. ambassadors.”

    “Terrorists”, eh? Didn’t Reagan called the taliban “courageous Afghan freedom fighters”? According to Obama, was Che Guevara a freedom fighter or a terrorist?

    • Randall Hurd says

      Apr 23, 2014 at 10:18 am

      Good, that means they were serious to begin with sending someone to us, which should be Illegal anyway. If I were in office in Washington Drone production would increase to 1,000 per day. Iran would think Drones are a normal event. They would get bombs dropped for breakfast lunch and dinner.

  3. Kepha says

    Apr 22, 2014 at 5:26 pm

    Give him the visa, but inform the Swiss go-betweens to tell Aboutalebi that he will be subject to arrest and imprisonment in Guantanamo (where the good halal cooking has given many clogged arteries and weight issues) as soon as he steps off the plane.

    Iran needs to know that the USA as not forgotten. They’ve gotten our apologies galore from Carter–hopefully, including our apologies for intervening to save southern Azerbaijan and Iranian Kordestan from the fraternal embrace of Soviet peoples back in 1946–and now they need to acknowledge that there behavior in 1979 is inexcusable even when there is a declared war.

    • Brian Hoff says

      Apr 22, 2014 at 9:32 pm

      Give him the visa, but inform the Swiss go-betweens to tell Aboutalebi that he will be subject to arrest and imprisonment in Guantanamo (where the good halal cooking has given many clogged arteries and weight issues) as soon as he steps off the plane.

      He willnot be arrest as our own diplmat will faces arrest also.

      • gravenimage says

        Apr 24, 2014 at 7:18 pm

        “Brian Hoff” wrote:

        He willnot (sic) be arrest (sic) as our own diplmat (sic) will faces (sic) arrest also.
        ………………………………

        Why does “DefenderofIslam” pretend that he considers diplomatic immunity to be sacrosanct? He has never indicated that he had any problem with Iran holding our entire diplomatic staff hostage for *444 days* in 1979.

        And why would he? For a Muslim, holding diplomats hostage, abusing them, and holding mock executions to torture them is perfectly Islamic.

        And now? This “ambassador” is just intended to rub the Kaffirs’ noses in it. *Ugh*.

  4. mortimer says

    Apr 23, 2014 at 12:06 am

    When Aboutalibi arrives in New York, the FBI should arrest him and bring him to trial. However, it’s less provocative to just keep him out.

    Hostage takers should be prosecuted and sentenced.

    • Brian Hoff says

      Apr 23, 2014 at 3:36 pm

      There is no proof that he was than hostage taker. Only the far rightwinger teabagger are makeing that claim.

      • gravenimage says

        Apr 24, 2014 at 7:33 pm

        “Brian Hoff” wrote:

        There is no proof that he was than (sic) hostage taker. Only the far rightwinger teabagger (sic) are makeing (sic) that claim.
        ………………………………..

        Were that the case, why would Barack Obama—surely not ‘than far rightwinger teabagger’—be signing this bill into law?:

        “President Barack Obama signed into law last week a widely supported bill preventing countries from appointing terrorists as their U.N. ambassadors.”

        Further, the Obama administration has denied Aboutalibi’s visa—not a lot of “teabaggers” in the White House right now…

        And finally, Aboutalibi *himself* admits he had a role in the hostage crisis, though he does attempt to whitewash and downplay it:

        “Lingering Power of Hostage Crisis Short-Circuits Iranian Nominee”

        http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/13/world/middleeast/lingering-power-of-hostage-crisis-short-circuits-iranian-nominee.html?_r=0

  5. Change Iran Now says

    Apr 24, 2014 at 12:22 am

    If Iran will not abandon something as minor as their proposed U.N. delegate, why in the world would we expect them to abandon something as consequential as their nuclear program? Our foreign affairs are being conducted as if others really think and act the way liberal naiveté would have them do in their unworkable perfect world.

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