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UN Guterres Serviced Indicted Iran Asset Afrasiabi Who Now Cites UN Charter Vs FARA

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EDNY COURT / UN GATE, Feb 18 –  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Guterres responded positively to entreaties by indicted Iran lobbyist Kaveh Afrisaibi, documents now sought to be withdrawn from the Federal court file but obtained by Inner City Press show.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.

 On February 18, Afrasiabi asked the court to " to dismiss the present complaint against him suo sponte on the basis of primacy of UN obligations over domestic obligation under the UN Charter. To elaborate, the UN Charter, Chapter XVI, Article 103 reads as follows: “In the event of a conflict between the obligations of the Members of the United Nations under the present Charter and the obligation under any other international agreement, the obligation under the present Charter shall prevail.” The scope of supremacy clause of the United Nations clearly extends to domestic laws, as a part and parcel of international laws, when there is a conflict of obligations between UN obligations and state obligations, as is clearly the case with respect to the Defendant, who worked legally for 13 years under the permitted UN norms, which allow country missions to hire consultants to advance their missions. See Scholarly observations on this settled matter in international law: M. Akehurst, A Modern Introduction to International Law (Routledge, 7th Edition, 1997). Lest we forget, the Foreign Agent Registration Act (FARA) was promulgated before WWII and before the founding of the United Nations after WWII, which has resulted in a litany of US-UN agreements, including the agreement entitled “Agreement Between the United Nations and the United States of America Regarding the Headquarters of the United Nations”, signed June 26, 1947 (22 U.S.C. 287 note), and the Convention on Privileges and Immunities of the United Nations, entered into force with respect to the United States on April 29, 1970 (21 UST 1418; TIAS 6900; UNTS 16)."

 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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