Ebrahim Raisi
At least 41 people have died in a crackdown on the demonstrations.
The Iranians are “trying to kill Americans on American soil.” In the past that would have been a cause for war, the former U.S. senator says.
Gilad Erdan, Israel’s U.N. ambassador, walked out ahead of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi’s speech Wednesday, leaving a picture of his Holocaust-survivor grandparents at the Israeli seat.
The Iranian president said “the occupier Zionist regime” is the biggest state sponsor of terrorism, slaughtering women and children.
Aviv Kochavi says Iranian Holocaust denial “is an additional reminder that such people must not be allowed to possess any sort of capability to develop lethal weapons.”
Ebrahim Raisi also says that Tehran will make ‘no concessions’ in nuclear negotiations with world powers.
Raisi: If Israel carries through on its threat to attack the nuclear program, “They will see if anything remains of the Zionist regime.”
A State Department spokesperson tells JNS that the United States is bound by its agreement with the United Nations to issue visas to member states, despite recent threats the regime has made towards American leaders.
“If you make slightest move against our nation ... our armed forces’ destination will be the heart of the Zionist regime,” says Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi.
“At this point, we seriously have to ask what exactly are we trying to salvage?” Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) said of the administration’s efforts to re-enter the JCPOA.
Through the recent engine tests and the launch of satellites at the end of December—in the midst of nuclear negotiations—Tehran has made it clear that it does not intend to compromise on the issue of missile development.
The Washington Institute for Near East Policy says Iran has “doubled down on the strategic importance of missile systems that can threaten U.S. forces and allies.”
