{"id":637753,"date":"2021-08-12T15:51:41","date_gmt":"2021-08-12T19:51:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=637753"},"modified":"2021-08-12T15:51:43","modified_gmt":"2021-08-12T19:51:43","slug":"gop-lawmakers-blast-eu-for-sending-senior-official-to-iranian-presidents-inauguration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/gop-lawmakers-blast-eu-for-sending-senior-official-to-iranian-presidents-inauguration\/","title":{"rendered":"GOP Lawmakers Blast EU for Sending Senior Official to Iranian President\u2019s Inauguration"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/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%2Fgop-lawmakers-blast-eu-for-sending-senior-official-to-iranian-presidents-inauguration%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=637753&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 readability=\"28.880866425993\">\n\t\t\t<span class=\"article-category\"><a class href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/\">National Security<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"article-excerpt\">EU touts support for human rights while legitimizing election of Ebrahim Raisi<\/p>\n<figure class=\"post-thumbnail-container relative lg:mr-24 w-full my-4 mb-8\">\n\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"736\" height=\"491\" src=\"https:\/\/s1.freebeacon.com\/up\/2021\/07\/Ebrahim-Raisi-736x491.jpeg\" class=\"w-full lazyload blur-up wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 736px) 100vw, 736px\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Ebrahim-Raisi-scaled-e1627496917207.jpeg 736w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Ebrahim-Raisi-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Ebrahim-Raisi-1024x683.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Ebrahim-Raisi-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Ebrahim-Raisi-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Ebrahim-Raisi-2048x1365.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Ebrahim-Raisi-1400x933.jpeg 1400w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" \/><figcaption class=\"absolute text-white p-4 w-full text-right text-xs bottom-0 bg-black opacity-75\">\n\t\t\t\tIranian president Ebrahim Raisi \/ Getty Images\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\t\t\t<span class=\"text-gray text-xs md:text-lg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/author\/adam-kredo\/\" title=\"Posts by Adam Kredo\" class=\"author url fn text-red-700\" rel=\"author\">Adam Kredo<\/a> \u2022 August 12, 2021 3:45 pm<\/span><\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"88.022810218978\">\n<p>A group of Republican lawmakers blasted the European Union for its decision to send a senior official to the inauguration of Iran\u2019s new hardline president, Ebrahim Raisi.<\/p>\n<p>The EU sent Enrique Mora, the political body\u2019s point man for ongoing discussions with Iran over its nuclear program, to attend Raisi\u2019s swearing-in ceremony last week. Mora\u2019s attendance at the ceremony came just days after Iran carried out a deadly drone strike on an oil tanker in the Persian Gulf.<\/p>\n<p>Rep. Claudia Tenney (R., N.Y.) and seven of her GOP colleagues called the EU decision &#8220;disgraceful&#8221; in a <a href=\"https:\/\/tenney.house.gov\/sites\/evo-subsites\/tenney.house.gov\/files\/evo-media-document\/Letter%20to%20HRVP%20Borrell%20on%20Iran%20Inauguration_FINAL_0.pdf\">letter sent Thursday<\/a> to the body\u2019s high representative and vice president of the European Commission, Josep Borrell Fontelles. The lawmakers say the EU is providing legitimacy to an election that was widely panned as rigged. They also say the decision disregards Raisi\u2019s role in mass human-rights abuses, including his decision to approve the extrajudicial killings of dissidents in the late 1980s, which earned him the moniker of the &#8220;Butcher of Tehran.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is disgraceful and disheartening that the European Union continues to tout its support for human rights and democratic principles abroad, yet it simultaneously legitimizes Ebrahim Raisi&#8217;s election. Raisi is a murderer who killed thousands of his own people and came to power in an election that was neither free nor fair,&#8221; Tenney and her colleagues wrote. &#8220;High Representative Borrell should uphold the European Union\u2019s human-rights principles and stand with the Iranian people rather than honor and empower their corrupt and abusive leaders.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The letter comes as the EU facilitates ongoing discussions between Iran and the Biden administration over its contested nuclear program. European powers want to see America rejoin the nuclear deal that President Donald Trump abandoned in 2018. A renewed agreement would unwind tough American economic sanctions on Tehran and allow Europe to conduct business with the hardline regime.<\/p>\n<p>Tenney and the other lawmakers say the EU\u2019s presence at Raisi\u2019s swearing-in is an insult to Iranian protesters who have been rallying against the country in recent weeks.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Iranian people oppose this regime\u2019s brutality, and they deserve the opportunity to express their views without being massacred and oppressed by their leaders,&#8221; the letter states. &#8220;Your actions minimized the Iranian people\u2019s struggle for freedom and legitimized their oppressors.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The letter was also signed by Reps. Tim Burchett (R., Tenn.), Scott Perry (R., Pa.), Stephanie Bice (R., Okla.), Brian Mast (R., Fla.), Nicole Malliotakis (R., N.Y.), Fred Keller (R., Pa.), and Ronny Jackson (R., Texas).<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Security EU touts support for human rights while legitimizing election of Ebrahim Raisi  Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi \/ Getty Images  Adam Kredo \u2022 &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-637753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637753","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=637753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/637753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=637753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=637753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=637753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}