| UN Guterres
Serviced Indicted Iran Asset Afrasiabi Now
Citing His UN Chronicle Spin
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Podcast
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EDNY COURT / UN
GATE, Feb 22 – 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withdrawn from the Federal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
February 22, Afrisiabi has
filed with the EDNY court as
ostensibly exculpatory
evidence his work for UN
Chronicle, along with "approximately
250 of his articles that
reflect the Defendant’s
integrity and high standard as
a Middle East expert, contrary
to the false allegations of
the US government dismissing
his writings as pure
propaganda. This list does not
include the Defendant’s books
and is presented as
exculpatory evidence. These
articles have appeared in New
York Times, Boston Globe,
Washington Post, SF Chronicle,
UN Chronicle, Council on
Foreign Relations, Washington
Times, Guardian, Harvard
Theological Review, Harvard
International Review, Columbia
Journal of International
Affairs, Brown's Journal of
International Affairs, Middle
East Journal, Global Dialogue,
Asia Times, etc. Many are
reprinted in Iran Review
citing the original source at
bottom of each article. In
many of these articles, the
subject of US-Iran peace and
dialogue and negotiations are
discussed, showing Afrasiabi’s
role as an agent of peace.And
the UN of Guterres has refused
every single Press question
about this UN and UNFCU and
now UN Chronicle-linked case.
Watch this site.
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" - and on his
interactions with, and
responses by, the office of
UNSG Guterres (who has refused
Inner City Press' written
questions on this).
On February
19, Guterres' UN's "informal
practices" were rejected as a
basis to dismiss the
indictment: "ORDER denying
[44],[45] *** The UN's
agreements and alleged
informal practices are not a
basis to dismiss the
indictment, which is founded
on U.S. federal law. I decline
to preclude the challenged
statements of the U.S.
Attorney. Ordered by Judge
Edward R. Korman on
2/19/2021."
But when will
Guterres be prosecuted?
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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