Posted on 03/19/2007 12:10:09 PM PDT by lizol
U.S. grants Ahmadinejad visa for address to UN Security Council
By The Associated Press
The United States has granted a visa to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, allowing him to travel to New York to address the United Nations Security Council as it considers new sanctions against Tehran over its nuclear program.
"It has been approved," State Department spokesman Sean McCormack told reporters Monday.
The move, which had been expected, comes after world powers agreed in principle to a new package of sanctions and Iran sought to speak to the council before members vote on a resolution to impose the new measures for refusing to suspend uranium enrichment.
The United States does not have diplomatic relations with Iran, which it regards as a leading state sponsor of terrorism. The U.S. has repeatedly condemned the country for allegedly trying to disguise an atomic weapons program under the guise of a civilian nuclear energy scheme. Tehran denies the charge.
As host of the United Nations, the United States is obligated to allow foreign leaders to speak before the world body barring extraordinary circumstances.
"We have host country obligations and we are going to live up those host country obligations," McCormack said.
(Excerpt) Read more at haaretz.com ...
Did they provide VISAs for the 25 "security agents" he wants to being along?
This is outrageous - would we have given Herr Hitler a Visa? I guess the State Department would ... I wonder how many muzzie maggots he's bringing with him?
Why did he even bother getting a visa? He could have just walked across the mexican border...
Fine. We'll just 'kidnap' them too. The Iranians can overthrow the mullahcracy while Nutjob is locked up in a cheap Holiday Inn somewhere.
good way to catch him.
"Why did he even bother getting a visa? He could have just walked across the mexican border..."
Good point!
Take him to see Gitmo.........for about 50 years
Would not have been an issue as the useless UN was not started until after WWII, as I recall.
"Just know that almost any business there bears a high degree of risk precisely because you cannot be sure that the party with whom you are dealing is not connected to some form of illicit activity," he added.
And they also may not be there next week if Imanutjob pulls anything funny!
Where's a sniper when you really need one. Then again, that Russian poison thing worked well.
"As host of the United Nations,"
Why are we stuck with this job and why can't we change it.
I thought the UN had headquarters in two other countries?
That is not to say he could not have just walked across the Canadian border, it's just that over 12 million people have already proven it is easy to do across the Mexican border...
How about his goon squad? Did they get visas, too?
unbelievable. The dead wood should have been cleaned out of the state dept long ago.
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