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Israeli Ambassador Escorted out after Holding Picture of Mahsa Amini during Iranian President’s Speech
Israeli ambassador to the U.N. Gilad Erdan posted video of the protest he staged during Iranian president Ebrahim Raisi’s speech here, calling the situation a “new moral stain for the U.N.”
New moral stain for the UN ‼️
When President Raisi of Iran, the “Butcher of Tehran,” began his speech, I waved a picture of Mahsa Amini, the innocent Iranian woman who was brutally murdered by the regime one year ago for not wearing a hijab “properly.”
Meanwhile, outside the UN… pic.twitter.com/ZVq80Zpt9N
— Ambassador Gilad Erdan גלעד ארדן (@giladerdan1) September 19, 2023
Erdan was escorted out by U.N. security personnel, per another clip posted by Barak Ravid of Axios:
אנשי הביטחון של האו"ם הוציאו את ארדן מהאולם וליוו אותו החוצה pic.twitter.com/9dZy1Yt0gZ
— Barak Ravid (@BarakRavid) September 19, 2023
Raisi had come to the U.N. unapologetic and more defiant than ever just after the first anniversary of Amini’s death. Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish-Iranian woman, was murdered by Iran’s morality police on September 16 of last year.