President Obama has signed into law a bill by Sen. Ted Cruz (R – TX) barring Iranian Ambassador to the United Nations Hamid Aboutalebi from serving in his position. It bars Aboutalebi from entering the United States.
Aboutalebi was accused of being involved in the 1979 US embassy hostage-taking during the Iranian Revolution, though his role appears to have just been that of a translator after the fact.
The ambassador has served several posts without any issue across the West, and was allowed to be part of a delegation to the United Nations in the late 1990s without any US objection. The hysteria surrounding rumors of his involvement in the hostage-taking has spurred a harsh reaction from politicians who need little excuse and even less evidence to move against Iran.
Iran has complained to the United Nations about the precedent set by the US getting to unilaterally pick and choose other nations’ ambassadors, and is planning to file a lawsuit against the US challenging the law as a violation of international treaty.
The US has in the past threatened to block ambassadors and nations have withdrawn the nominations, and at times the US has limited the movements of ambassadors to the UN to the area around New York City. This is the first time, however, that they will be openly refusing to allow a sitting ambassador to the United Nations to actually visit the United Nations.
And the swine in DC continue to lecture the rest of the world on how they have to "play by the established rules."
Swine is too nice a word for them
And this atrocious behavior will continue until someone slaps the urine out of them.
And this atrocious behavior will continue until someone slaps the urine out of them.
What in the world was Obama thinking…giving credence to anything Cruz might say. He should have ignored Cruz, just as Cruz and the other TPers do to him.
Obama is playing the game "follow the leader."…….Benjamin Netanyahu….AIPAC…..Lobbyist….Ted Cruz….
Seeing how quite a few US worthies are involved in illegal bombings of all sorts, I hope this idea won't take hold worldwide.
On the other hand, no Rices and Samanthas on tour would be refreshing. Kissinger can stay too.
The United Nations needs to move out of New York and find a neutral country to carryout the affairs of international commerce and good will.
The presence of UN in New York is not an accident. It is there to control other nations. The UN must move to a neutral, non-military nation such as Costa Rica or Switzerland.
Entirely a Judeo-Zionist play through their pawns on the board. What insufferable maggots. They have tried everything to provoke a US-Iran military confrontation. Every time, the Iranians have caught the neocon provocateurs flatfooted. The Persians are far more nimble and clever and farsighted than our America court-jester connivers. For the past 13 years, they have exposed the Zionist fraud and hypocrisy and corruption in DC-Tel Aviv time and again. I look forward to see how they flummox these schmucks this time.
Things are seriously ramping up here! We have ground trips going to Poland and now this. If Obama has any morality he must be under a lot of pressure playing all these hands. It seems like we a ramping up for more war. Can the US actually do this? What next, drone wars in Russia? It has come to a bad end, all this feigned peace. The people of the Earth need to start being smarter and need to be working to gather to accomplish things in our own communities, barter talents and trades, plan well for an economic shift.