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Raisi plans to address UN in New York despite US sanctions against Iran
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TEHRAN, 03 August 2022, (TON): The government’s spokesman said “Iran’s ultraconservative President Ebrahim Raisi plans to travel to New York for the UN General Assembly next month despite US sanctions against him.”
Ali Bahadori-Jahromi told a weekly press briefing “the preliminary planning has been done for the president’s attendance at the UN General Assembly session.”
Raisi, who has been under US sanctions since November 2019 for “complicity in serious human rights violations, missed last year’s General Assembly because of the pandemic. A pre-recorded video of his address was played to the meeting instead.”
When Washington added his name to its blacklist of Iranian officials, Raisi was still judiciary chief. He became president in June 2021.
Washington accuses him of playing a leading role in mass executions of detained leftists in 1988 while he was chief prosecutor of the Tehran revolutionary court.
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