The United States Senate voted unanimously on Monday night to bar the Iranian regime’s newly named ambassador to the United Nations from entering the United States, charging that he was involved in the hostage-taking at the United States Embassy in Tehran in 1979, the New York Times reported.<\/p>\n
The vote came together in a matter of hours after Senator Charles E. Schumer of New York, the Senate\u2019s No. 3 Democrat, joined forces with Senator Ted Cruz, the Tea Party firebrand from Texas, who has been inveighing against Hamid Aboutalebi, for more than a week.<\/p>\n
Hamid Abutalebi, who has been appointed by Hassan Rouhani as the regime\u2019s ambassador to the United Nations in New York, has a long record of cooperation with the revolutionary guards\u2019 intelligence, as well as with other intelligence services of the regime, and based on investigations by the Italian Judicial Police and eye-witness accounts, he coordinated the assassination of Mohammad-hossein Naghdi, the representative of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI) in Italy, on 16 March 1993.<\/p>\n
Mohammad-hossein Naghdi, who was charge d\u2019affaires in Rome (the Iranian government\u2019s highest-ranking diplomat in Italy), defected and joined the Resistance in March 1982 in protest at the executions, tortures and massacres by the regime. Later as the representative of the NCRI in Italy, he actively disclosed the mullahs\u2019 crimes and promoted the Resistance.<\/p>\n
Following the assassination of Naghdi, the Iranian Resistance declared that the regime\u2019s embassy in Rome had been involved in coordinating this criminal operation. In subsequent years, with the investigations by the Italian Police and the accounts of the eye-witnesses, it was determined that Abutalebi, who had been mullahs\u2019 Ambassador from 1988 to 1992, had been the architect and organizer of this assassination.<\/p>\n
According to the investigation, at the time of the assassination of Naghdi, Abutalebi entered Italy using a pseudonym and forged documents to implement this crime. The police investigation, including accounts given by an informed witness, read:<\/p>\n
According to the investigation, at the time of the assassination of Naghdi, Abutalebi entered Italy using a pseudonym and forged documents to implement this crime. The police investigation, including accounts given by an informed witness, read:<\/p>\n
\u201cNaghdi\u2019s murder should be considered a political one decided by Iranian government circles and in the framework of a general project to destroy the Resistance abroad. Naghdi is targeted in Italy because of the value and extent of his political activities in Italy. He was talented in establishing connections with senior figures in Italian political circles on a national scale; he had an unquestionable humanitarian character, and loved his struggle against the Iranian regime. This assassination was decided by high-ranking political-religious figures in Tehran, and the execution of the plan was tasked to a team that had entered Italy for this specific purpose. The team had a direct connection with the diplomatic representative in Italy, and in particular with Ambassador Abutalebi.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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