{"id":2030587,"date":"2023-09-13T13:38:02","date_gmt":"2023-09-13T17:38:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/iranian-president-to-host-private-invite-only-powwow-for-influencers-in-nyc\/"},"modified":"2023-09-13T13:40:59","modified_gmt":"2023-09-13T17:40:59","slug":"iranian-president-to-host-private-invite-only-powwow-for-influencers-in-nyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/iranian-president-to-host-private-invite-only-powwow-for-influencers-in-nyc\/","title":{"rendered":"Iranian President to Host Exclusive Gathering for Influencers in NYC"},"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\">20<\/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%2Firanian-president-to-host-private-invite-only-powwow-for-influencers-in-nyc%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=2030587&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\u2019s American tour\u200b prompts backlash \u2064from U.S \u200bleaders and Iranian dissidents<\/h2>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure><figcaption>\n<p>      \u200c   Iranian president \u2064Ebrahim Raisi \u2063(Atta Kenare\/AFP \u200bvia Getty Images)<br \/>\n    <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Iran\u2019s president is slated to host \u2063a\u2062 private, \u200dinvitation-only event with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/big-tech-has-millions-of-young-people-drunk-on-digital-toxins\/\" title=\"Big Tech Has Millions Of Young People Drunk On \u2018Digital Toxins\u2019\">political influencers<\/a> in New York City next week on the \u2064sidelines \u2064of the United\u200d Nations\u2019 annual gathering, the <em>Washington Free Beacon<\/em> has learned.<\/p>\n<p>Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi \u200bis scheduled to hold \u2064&#8221;an off the record meeting&#8221; with high-profile political insiders and analysts \u2064on Monday \u2062afternoon at the Millennium Hilton \u2063Hotel, near the \u200cU.N. headquarters in downtown New York City.\u2062 An invitation to the \u2062event,\u200b obtained by the <em>Free Beacon<\/em>, was\u2064 sent out last week by Iran\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/british-challenger-2-tank-destroyed-in-ukraine-in-first-combat-loss-for-vehicle\/\" title=\"First combat loss for British Challenger 2 tank as it gets destroyed in Ukraine.\">permanent\u2063 representative<\/a> to the\u200b U.N., ahead of\u200d Raisi\u2019s arrival in \u2063the United States.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>It is one of at least three private events Raisi is scheduled to host while\u2064 he is \u200bin \u200cthe United States to attend the \u200dU.N General Assembly, the weeklong annual \u2063gathering of world leaders. In addition to Monday\u2064 afternoon\u2019s private powwow, Raisi will host an &#8220;interfaith \u200bdialogue&#8221; on Monday morning. On Tuesday, the Council on \u2064Foreign Relations\u2063 (CFR) think tank is scheduled \u200cto host a separate meeting with Raisi.<\/p>\n<p>Details about \u200dthe event, and who\u2063 will attend, are not made clear in the invitation. \u2062Iran\u2019s mission \u200bto \u200dthe U.N., which is\u2062 listed as a contact on\u2062 the invite, \u2062did \u2064not respond to a <em>Free Beacon<\/em> email \u200brequesting further details.<\/p>\n<p>Raisi\u2019s\u2063 efforts to meet with American influencers and policymakers \u2063during his stay \u2064in the \u200bUnited States has prompted anger\u2064 among Iranian dissidents and some former U.S.\u200d officials who say that any meeting with Iran\u2019s leader provides his hardline regime with legitimacy.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Americans who accept the regime&#8217;s invitation to meet \u200bwith Raisi are not only whitewashing the regime&#8217;s atrocities, but are \u2063complicit in making the regime\u2062 believe\u200b they will not suffer reputational\u200d and diplomatic costs \u2062for massacring\u200c protesters last fall,&#8221; said Gabriel Noronha, a former State Department Iran adviser.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;President Raisi is \u2063a U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/iranian-president-to-host-private-invite-only-powwow-for-influencers-in-nyc\/\" title=\"Iranian President to Host Exclusive Gathering for Influencers in NYC\">sanctioned mass-murdering zealot<\/a> who tortured pregnant \u2063women in Iranian jails and whose government \u200ccontinues to execute, imprison, \u2062and torture Iranian \u200bdissidents in secret \u2064jails,&#8221; Noronha added. &#8220;He is not interested in \u2018interfaith dialogues\u2019 with the West, he \u200dis interested in its destruction.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The CFR event has generated particular \u200coutrage given the think \u2064tank&#8217;s status as one \u200dof D.C.\u2019s premier\u200d foreign\u200d policy hubs.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Hosting Iranian president Raisi, the Butcher of Tehran\u2014who was responsible for the murder of 1000s of Iranian innocents\u2014is immoral\u200d and indecent,&#8221; former secretary of\u2064 state Mike Pompeo, \u2062who is the subject\u200b of \u200cactive assassination plots \u2064by Iran\u2019s regime,\u2062 told the\u2064 <em>Free Beacon<\/em>. &#8220;Not only\u2062 has he, personally, terrorized his\u2063 own citizens, he\u2063 will, \u2064from New York City, espouse his continuing efforts to\u2062 destroy Israel\u200d and kill Americans including former government officials.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Monday \u200cmorning\u2064 &#8220;interfaith dialogue&#8221; also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/it-was-real-friend-and-former-employee-reveals-rush-limbaughs-journey-to-faith\/\" title=\"\u2018It Was Real\u2019: Friend And Former Employee Reveals Rush Limbaugh\u2019s Journey To Faith\">drew backlash<\/a> on Twitter from Iranian dissidents who\u2063 slammed Raisi\u2019s government for its \u2062persecution of those with\u2063 differing faiths, including Iran\u2019s Baha\u2019i\u200d population.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Judiciary\u200d in Iran announced it has closed down 12 schools and educational centers and made several arrests in the northern Iranian\u2064 city of Babol on\u2064 charges \u2063of \u2018promoting\u2019 the Baha&#8217;i faith,&#8221; Nazenin Ansari, an\u200d Iranian journalist, \u2062wrote Monday \u2063on X, along with a \u200bscreenshot of the invitation.<\/p>\n<p>Raisi and his government also routinely disseminate anti-Semitic propaganda and call\u200c for the destruction of the world\u2019s\u2063 only Jewish state.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans in Congress moved\u2064 on Tuesday to bar Raisi\u200b from entering the United \u2062States.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Ebrahim Raisi&#8217;s upcoming private event in New York City has sparked criticism from both American leaders and Iranian dissidents. The invitation-only gathering, set to take place during the United Nations&#8217; annual gathering, has raised concerns among political influencers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":117,"featured_media":2030588,"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-2030587","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\/2030587","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=2030587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2030587\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2030588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2030587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2030587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2030587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}