| UN Guterres
Serviced Indicted Iran Asset Afrasiabi Who
Now Cites UN Charter Vs FARA
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Podcast
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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withdrawn from the Federal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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