| UN Guterres
Serviced Iran Asset Afrasiabi Who Says He
Worked For a Branch of the UN
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Podcast
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EDNY COURT / UN
GATE, August 25 – UN Secretary
General Antonio Guterres
responded positively to
entreaties by indicted Iran
lobbyist Kaveh Afrisaibi,
documents now sought to be
withdrawn from the Federal
court file but obtained by
Inner City Press show.
Afrisiabi was illegal paid as
a lobbyist by Iran Mission the
UN for years, through the UN
Federal Credit Union.
Now on August 25,
Afrasiabi had a proceeding in
the EDNY. Judge Korman arrived
late, saying he'd needed
oxygen supplements to arrive.
He chided the AUSA for delays
in discovery, and said the
33,000 audio files should be
produced by Friday, with a
next conference on December 1
at 2 pm. He mused that the US
might not deport Afrasiabi to
Iran if convicted, just as he
said the US at least for a
time did not deport to
China. Afrasiabi cut in
to say he had worked for "a
branch of the United Nations."
Back on July 14,
Inner City Press again in
writing asked the UN for its
role in Afrasiabi's payment,
and other Iran cases.
Spokesperson Florencia Soto
Nino pretended there were no
more questioned, and ended her
briefing, providing no
answers. Birds of a feather.
In April
2021 Afrasiabi wrote to PEN
(which has done nothing about
the UN roughing
up and banning Inner
City Press) that " in January
2021, the outgoing rogue
Trump administration
that made a mockery of US
Constitution and international
law orchestrated the
fifth episode of my
wrongful arrest and
imprisonment, accusing me of
violating the Foreign
Agent Registration Act."
Reports to
the UN, from a man now
arrested under US FARA. And
from Guterres and his
spokespeople Stephane Dujarric
and Melissa Fleming? Nothing.
Impunity.
On February
17, Afrasiabi submitted to the
EDNY court his lobbying to,
and response from, jzarif [at]
gmail.com to lobby UNSG
Antonio Guterres, here.
Inner City
Press, banned
from the UN by Guterres,
has repeated put in written
questions about this to UN
Spokespeople Stephane Dujarric
and Melissa Fleming and to
Guterres, including through
SGcentral [at] un.org.
But
despite an on-camera
promise to at least answer
Inner City Press' written
questions, there have been no
answers.
By
contrast, when Iran illegal
lobbyist Afrisiabi wrote to
Guterres through SGCentral
[at] un.org, he got an
immediately response and
solicitation to clarify and
request a meeting, from
Guterres staffer Susanne
Rose.
A subsequent
message from Rose to Afrasiabi
makes clear that Afrasiabi was
granted a meeting with UN
official Darko Mocibob, and
that Afriasiabi's illegal Iran
lobbying was passed on to SG
Guterres. Sample
document on Inner City Press'
DocumentCloud here,
more on Patreon here
including "Afrasiabi was
operating under UN norms" and
"Exhibit I: Afrasiabi’s email
to UN Secretary General,
responses from the Secretary
General."
Likewise
there have been not answers to
this question, emailed and
WhatsApp-ed on the morning of
February 15 by Inner City
Press to Guterres, Fleming,
Dujarric and his deputy Farhan
Haq, before publication of
this article.
So where
are the answers on this? And
given Guterres' undisclosed
links also with convicted UN
bribery firm CEFC China
Energy, and banning
of the Press which asked, how
can he be allowed the second
five-year term is now seeking?
Watch this site.
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