Raisi’s presence at UN General Assembly drew protesters outside hall
It was not clear why he was being detained, though he was later released. Fox News Digital has reached out to the UN for comment.Gilad Erdan held up a picture of Mahsa Amini, an Iranian woman who was brutally murdered last year by the country’s so-called morality police for not properly wearing her hijab.
Erdan, who left the General Assembly Hall with the Israeli delegation, said the UN had reached “a new moral low” by giving a platform to Raisi, who he derided as a “vile murderer.”FOX News Digital “It is a disgrace that member states stay to listen to a mass murderer. It should not be possible for a murderer with blood on his hands to receive a platform here at the U.N. I left the speech to make it clear that the State of Israel stands by the Iranian people. I call on the international community to stop the madness and prevent murderers and anti-Semites from coming and speaking here at the U.N.
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