National Security Council spokesman John Kirby defended the White House after Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian was permitted to enter the country to attend a UN meeting.
The White House on Thursday defended the government's decision to allow Iran's foreign minister to enter the country. National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said the that U.S. was obligated to permit Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian to attend a United Nations meeting for foreign ministers at the U.N. headquarters in New York City. 'The secretary-general called a meeting at the foreign ministerial level. He's the foreign minister of Iran.
Fox News Digital learned that Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian was coming to New York as early as Monday for a U.N. Security Council meeting and asked the State Department why he was being allowed in. While he did not attend that meeting, he arrived Wednesday night. Iran's state-owned Islamic Republic News Agency broadcast video of the minister at the Millennium Hilton hotel across from the United Nations. Amirabdollahian spoke at the U.N. headquarters Thursday morning.
The Wall Street Journal reported that Amirabdollahian had taken part in at least two planning meetings in Lebanon with the terrorist groups Hezbollah, Hamas and Islamic Jihad ahead of the October 7 attack on Israel, in which more than 1,400 Israelis had been savagely tortured, raped and killed.
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