Tehran said on Tuesday that Iranian President Ebrahim Raissi will attend the UN General Assembly in New York in September, despite his name being on the list of Iranian officials sanctioned by the United States.
“Preliminary planning includes the presence of the president (Ebrahim Raissi) at the UN General Assembly session,” Iranian government spokesman Ali Bahadori Jahromi told a weekly news conference in Tehran.
In early November 2019, Raissi was placed on the list of Iranian officials sanctioned by the United States for “compliance in serious human rights abuses”.
He became president in June 2021 and was head of the Judicial Authority of the Islamic Republic at that time.
Washington accuses Raissi of participating in the mass executions of Marxist or leftist detainees in 1988, when he was deputy prosecutor at the Revolutionary Court in Tehran.
Raissi, twice, in 2018 and 2020, denied playing any role but, according to him, “paid tribute” to the “order” given by Ayatollah Khomeini, the founder of the Islamic Republic, to continue this purge.
The United Nations General Assembly, an important diplomatic event of the world, will officially open in New York on September 13.
Raissi, who did not go on a trip in 2021 due to the Covid-19 pandemic, made a speech at the General Assembly last year on the previously recorded and published video.
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