Israel’s ambassador to UN detained after leaving General Assembly to protest Iranian president’s speech
Security personnel at the United Nations detained Israel’s ambassador to U.N. on Tuesday shortly after he had left the General Assembly Hall in protest of a speech given by Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi.
He was released later, but it was unclear why he had been detained. Fox News Digital contacted the U.N. to get a comment. The ambassador said to Fox News Digital that he had been detained in a manner “inacceptable”.
Gilad Erdan, before storming out of General Assembly Hall, held up a photo of Mahsa Amin, an Iranian woman brutally murdered by the so-called morality Police last year for not wearing her hijab properly. Amini’s death sparked protests across the Islamic Republic which were brutally suppressed.
Erdan told Fox News Digital that “the U.N. lost its moral compass today.” “Being arrested for standing up with the Iranians and protesting against a vile murderer, who was allowed to speak on the world stage, is utterly dishonorable. This is just another example of Israel’s bias at the U.N. Other diplomats have held signs in the past for ideological reasons. “I will never be intimidated and I will always speak out for what’s right and just.”
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The caption that accompanied Erdan’s picture of Amini read, “Iranian Women deserve freedom now.”
Protesters gathered outside the U.N. General Assembly to protest Raisi’s presence.
Erdan, who was with the Israeli delegation when it left the General Assembly Hall, said that the U.N. reached “a new low in morality” by giving Raisi a podium, whom he called a “vile killer.”
“While the butchers of Tehran are speaking at the UN, and being respected by international community, hundreds Iranians outside are protesting, shouting, and calling on international community to awaken and help them,” Erdan stated in a press release.
He said that it was a shame for member states to stay and listen to mass murderers. “A murderer who has blood on his hands should not have a podium at the U.N.” I left my speech in order to make it clear that Israel stands with the Iranian people. I appeal to the international community not to let this madness continue and stop anti-Semites and murderers from speaking at the U.N.
Erdan said to Fox News Digital that he wanted the international community’s attention on the “hypocrisy” and moral distortion of the U.N. He claimed that the U.N. was “founded to stop atrocities,” but it gave a voice to “a mass murderer who denies and distorts Holocaust, threatens to destroy the Jewish people, and is killing his own people as well as women and protesters.”
Erdan stated that “the U.N. pays close attention to [Raisi] while so many people suffer, are killed and murdered because of his brutal regime.”
He continued, “I decided to show and remind him of the struggle of Iranian women and to remind everyone that they aren’t our enemies and that Israel stands in solidarity and support with them, despite what their regime tells them. “This isn’t the truth. Israel stands with the Iranian people, and we wish to live in harmony with them. But it is their regime that is blocking this and making them suffer.”
Raisi blamed the United States for the instability of the world in his speech to the U.N. General Assembly.
In a Cold War mentality they try to create conflicts in various regions, and reconstitute global blocks.
This regressive effort poses a serious threat to the safety and prosperity of nations. The Islamic Republic of Iran is adamant that a new East/West divide must not take place.
Former President Trump sanctioned Raisi over his role in the 1988 massacre of 5,000 Iranian prisoners of political opinion and the 2019 slaughter of 1,500 Iranian protesters by the clerical government.
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