{"id":2029351,"date":"2023-09-12T14:40:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-12T18:40:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republicans-move-to-ban-iranian-president-from-entering-us\/"},"modified":"2023-09-12T14:42:39","modified_gmt":"2023-09-12T18:42:39","slug":"republicans-move-to-ban-iranian-president-from-entering-us","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republicans-move-to-ban-iranian-president-from-entering-us\/","title":{"rendered":"Republicans seek to bar Iranian President from US entry."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frepublicans-move-to-ban-iranian-president-from-entering-us%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2029351&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n<blockquote>\n<h2>Raisi set to attend UN <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/second-amendment-advocates-fear-biden-admin-will-limit-private-gun-sales\/\" title=\"Second Amendment supporters worry about potential restrictions on private gun sales under the Biden administration.\">annual \u200cgathering<\/a> next week<\/h2>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure><figcaption>\n<p>      \u200d    Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi (Getty \u200dImages)<br \/>\n    <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Republican\u200b lawmakers are spearheading an\u200c effort to\u2064 ban Iran\u2019s president from \u200bentering the United States to attend the United Nations annual gathering next week.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. \u2063Claudia Tenney (R., N.Y.) \u2064and Sen. Ted Cruz (R., Texas) introduced\u2064 legislation on Tuesday\u200b that will \u2063make it illegal for\u200c Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi \u2064and his delegation to attend the U.N. General Assembly \u2063in New York \u2064City, according to \u2063a copy of the <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/TENNEY_SEVER118_xml77.pdf\">legislation<\/a> obtained by the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>The U.N.\u2019s annual conference brings leaders\u200d from\u2063 across \u2063the globe together for a week of meetings, \u2064and is\u200b often used by dictators and anti-U.S. figures as a platform to disseminate propaganda. \u200cLast year, Raisi delivered a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pbs.org\/newshour\/world\/watch-iranian-president-ebrahim-raisi-addresses-the-2022-united-nations-general-assembly\">speech<\/a> that assailed the United States for withdrawing \u2064from the 2015 nuclear\u2063 accord and claimed his country is a beacon of justice, comments that\u200d came as Tehran\u2019s \u200d<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/republicans-move-to-ban-iranian-president-from-entering-us\/\" title=\"Republicans seek to bar Iranian President from US entry.\">hardline police forces murdered pro-democracy protesters<\/a> in the streets.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans like Tenney\u2062 and Cruz \u2063maintain\u200d that Raisi\u200d has no right to be \u2062hosted in New York City as his government fosters terrorism\u200b across the globe and launches attacks \u200bagainst U.S. forces and allies in\u200b the Middle East. While the legislation stands\u200b little chance of \u200bpassing prior to Raisi\u2019s arrival next week, the lawmakers\u2063 say it is important to show that\u200c &#8220;terrorists\u200d are\u2062 not welcome in the\u200b U.S.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It\u2064 is imperative we stop Raisi and his associates from setting\u200b foot on American soil,&#8221; Tenney told\u200d the <em>Free Beacon<\/em>. <strong>Raisi, whose\u200b nickname \u2063is \u2018the Butcher\u200b of Tehran,\u2019 \u2062has a record of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-reps-torch-eu-for-sending-official-to-attend-inauguration-of-new-iran-president-nicknamed-the-butcher-of-tehran\/\" title=\"GOP Reps Torch EU For Sending Official To Attend Inauguration Of New Iran President Nicknamed \u2018The Butcher Of Tehran\u2019\">grave human rights abuses<\/a> and orchestrating terrorist activities worldwide.<\/strong> Raisi helped organize\u2064 the execution of around 5,000 dissidents in \u200bthe\u2063 1980s, and has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/07\/30\/world\/middleeast\/iran-sweden-trial-raisi.html\">defended<\/a> the regime\u2019s murders.<\/p>\n<p>The legislation, dubbed \u2063the SEVER Act, \u200dwill\u2063 &#8220;show \u200bthe\u2064 international \u200ccommunity that terrorists \u2062are not welcome in the U.S.,&#8221; Tenney said.<\/p>\n<p>The bill builds upon <a href=\"https:\/\/www.federalregister.gov\/documents\/2019\/06\/26\/2019-13793\/imposing-sanctions-with-respect-to-iran\">sanctions<\/a> \u200dissued by former president \u200bDonald Trump and \u200ccould \u200dserve as a model for future \u200cRepublican administrations to ban Iranian officials and other terror-designated\u200c regimes from attending \u200dthe U.N.<\/p>\n<p>There has long been an appetite\u200d among Republicans \u2062in \u2063the House and \u200cSenate \u2064to stop Iranian officials and \u200dother\u200d anti-American leaders\u2014such\u2064 as Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas\u2014from using the U.N. as a \u200bvehicle to attack Western values and foment hatred, \u2062particularly against Israel.<\/p>\n<p>Tenney and Cruz also introduced \u200dthe \u200dSEVER Act last \u200dyear, but it did not pass.<\/p>\n<p>Iran\u2019s Raisi is scheduled\u2062 to land in America next week on the \u2064heels\u2063 of a hostage deal with the Biden \u2064administration that freed up\u200d $6 billion \u2064in revenue for \u2064the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/iranian-dissidents-claim-biden-state-dept-hire-is-pro-regime-advocate\/\" title=\"Iranian Dissidents Claim Biden State Dept Hire is Pro-Regime Advocate\">hardline government<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Raisi\u2019s appearance at the U.N. also \u2063comes on the\u2064 one-year anniversary of popular \u2064uprisings \u2063in Iran over the death of a young woman who was killed by the country\u2019s\u200b <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/what-60-minutes-could-learn-from-oriana-fallaci\/\" title=\"What \u201960 Minutes\u2019 Could Learn From Oriana Fallaci\">morality police<\/a>. \u2063The protest movement is still percolating \u2064in the \u2062country.<\/p>\n<p>U.S.-based Iranian \u200cdissidents are expected\u200d to organize a \u200bseries \u200bof protests\u2063 in New York around Raisi\u2019s visit.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>seeks to prevent Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi from attending the UN annual gathering. The bill, introduced by Rep. Claudia Tenney and Sen. Ted Cruz, aims to ban Raisi&#8217;s entry into the United States. Republican lawmakers are leading this initiative.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":117,"featured_media":2029352,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[544],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2029351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-free-beacon"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2029351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/117"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2029351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2029351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2029352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2029351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2029351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2029351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}