After the attack on and killing of General Soleimani, Iran demanded an audience with the United Nations to appeal for condemnation of the attack.
Iran may have to do that from afar because Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif claims that he has been refused his request for a visa to travel to the United States to make his appeal at the UN.
Rhetoric or U.N. Violation?
The denial of Zarif’s visa may play well for Trump supporters, but it may not be legal.
According to the agreement reached in 1947 when the United Nations HQ was established in New York, the United States “shall not impose any impediments to transit to or from the headquarters district of… representatives of Members of officials of the United Nations.”
This creates a bit of a conundrum for the United States in that Zarif if a foreign diplomat, but he has also openly threatened the United States.
Pompeo, however, has already addressed the issue with the media.
The Secretary of State said, “We will comply with our obligations under the U.N. requirements and the headquarters agreement and we will do so in this particular instance and more broadly every day.”
This would tend to make us believe Zarif is just trying to get everyone whipped up with some false rhetoric as well as giving Democrats another reason to attack Trump.
Openly Threatening the United States
During that same interview, as briefly mentioned above, Zarif stated that Iran has every intention of retaliating for the strike.
What everyone seems to be missing here is the fact that the strike against Soleimani was a retaliatory strike for the death of a U.S. contractor and the attack on our embassy, both of which Soleimani had a hand in.
Dems are following the narrative Zarif is pushing to justify Iran’s next attack against our country.
Iranian Ambassador Majid Takht Ravanchi to Secretary-General Guterres stated, “Conducted ‘at the direction of the President’ of the United States, the assassination of [Soleimani], by any measure, is an obvious example of State terrorism and, as a criminal act, constitutes a gross violation of the fundamental principles of international law, including, in particular, those stipulated in the Charter of the United Nations and thus entails the international responsibility of the United States.”
Elizabeth Warren also recently called this an assassination, which even got the ears up on some liberal journalists.
The fact that Soleimani had his hands in the two attacks previously mentioned makes him a target of interest and he is already the leader of a terrorist organization, so that term does not apply here.
Also, let’s not forget, Iran has been the aggressor all along here.
Up until now, every strike the United States has made has been a retaliatory one.
Iran is merely trying to justify their next attack, and Democrats, for whatever reason, are buying into it.