{"id":263712,"date":"2022-09-12T14:40:19","date_gmt":"2022-09-12T12:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/?p=263712"},"modified":"2023-01-31T00:36:19","modified_gmt":"2023-01-30T23:36:19","slug":"un-delegates-should-listen-to-iranians-not-tehrans-illegitimate-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ncr-iran.org\/en\/news\/iran-resistance\/un-delegates-should-listen-to-iranians-not-tehrans-illegitimate-president\/","title":{"rendered":"UN Delegates Should Listen to Iranians, not Tehran\u2019s Illegitimate President\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Iran<\/p>\n

Time is running out to take action in accordance with recommendations from countless Iranian expatriates and supporters of Iran\u2019s pro-democracy Resistance movement<\/a> concerning the Iranian regime\u2019s president, Ebrahim Raisi\u2019s prospective attendance at the opening of the 77<\/span>th<\/span> session of the United Nations General Assembly.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

A recent statement reiterating those recommendations was signed by 500 Iranian academics, scientists, and other professionals. The message was sent to the White House on Thursday and urged President Biden to deny entry visas for Raisi and his would-be accompanying delegation.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

It went on to add that such a move is plainly justified by Section 212 of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), which gives the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of State legal authority to bar entry to any foreign national who \u201chas committed, ordered, incited, assisted, or otherwise participated in the act of torture… or under color of law of any foreign nation, any extrajudicial killing<\/a>.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Section 212 also mentions association with terrorist organizations as grounds for barring entry, as well as the potential for such entry to be \u201cdetrimental to the interests of the United States.\u201d Raisi plainly fits all of these criteria.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Concerning torture and extrajudicial killing, Raisi is not only credibly implicated in both but is among the worst known violators of human rights anywhere in the world who is still serving in government, having faced no meaningful consequences for his crimes.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

In 1988, Raisi was one of four officials to serve on the Tehran \u201cdeath commission,\u201d<\/a> which oversaw mass executions in Evin and Gohardasht Prisons that summer. Similar death commissions were convened around the same time in various other localities, but the judges in the capital city were responsible for the single greatest share of over 30,000 hangings and deaths by firing squad that comprised the 1988 genocide.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Naturally, The regime denies the scale of the killing. But that denial plainly lacks credibility in light of the fact that Iranian authorities have routinely made efforts to pave over and build upon the suspected sites of secret mass graves wherein many of the massacre\u2019s victims were buried.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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More than 500 Iranian-American scientists, scholars and industry executives are urging the White House to deny Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi entry into the U.S. for the United Nations General Assembly in New York later this month. https:\/\/t.co\/qRFFgrMbUl<\/a><\/p>\n

— The Washington Times (@WashTimes) September 9, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n