Thread by @HeshmatAlavi

THREAD

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@CFR_org is insisting on providing a platform to #Iran’s chief apologist @JZarif despite the horrific execution of #NavidAfkari & the following int’l outcry.

This is just a short glimpse of who CFR is inviting.

Attention: @RichardHaass

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CFR has a history of providing a platform to Zarif to push his lies & talking points. Here he defends Bashar Assad, the brutal dictator of Syria, and his use of chemical weapons against civilians.

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This is the individual that CFR & Richard Haass are so keen on inviting.

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Zarif even describes himself as a “human rights professor” and again becomes completely ridiculous.

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Zarif knows the regime’s human rights violations are so grotesque that he has no choice but bypassing all questions in this regard.

Here he literally loses his control.

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While Zarif claims to be a "human rights professor," this from 2006 in @Columbia University about the Holocaust is quite interesting.

A known tactic of Iranian regime officials is to answer tough questions with a question of their own.

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Providing a platform to Zarif will result in him bypassing the questions to push his talking points.

Here’s another example.

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Zarif’s lies about Iran’s deliberate downing of the Ukrainian civilian airliner #PS752 with two surface-to-air missiles.

He defends the actions of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) & the Supreme Leader despite their horrific murdering of 176 people.

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Listen how Zarif literally threatens Europe during the 2019 Munich Security Conference.

My take:
Shame on the Europeans who cowardly continue to appease the genocidal regime of Iran.

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Zarif on Iran’s assassination plots in Europe.

He literally doesn’t know how to respond to damning accusations and sanctions, and has no choice resorting to ridiculous remarks.

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Listen to Zarif resorting to more lies in a desperate attempt to save face.

However, Ahmad Alamalhoda, a representative of Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, says otherwise.

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This is how Zarif should be grilled for the regime's "barbaric oppression of its own people."

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Listen to characteristics of the barbaric & genocidal regime that Zarif represents.

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Iranians living in Norway protested a previous visit by Zarif.

This is how we Iranians feel about Zarif.

CFR & Richard Haass should take this into account.

Chants:
"Zarif is a terrorist"

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July 31, 2019

For good reason, the U.S. Treasury Dept. added Zarif to the list of "Specially Designated Nationals."

Zarif is also subject to secondary sanctions.
treasury.gov/resource-cente…

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Parallel to being the regime's chief apologist, Zarif has very close relations with Iran's terror elements, including Qassem Suleimani, the IRGC, Hezbollah & Syrian dictator Bashar Assad.

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CFR’s invitation of Zarif for a virtual event next Tuesday runs afoul of U.S. sanctions laws.
freebeacon.com/national-secur…

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Disgusting!

CFR leaders will not heed to calls for the cancellation of their hosting of Zarif.

"Canceling would establish a precedent & a standard that could preclude us hosting officials from a significant number of countries," they say in their appeasing Iran.

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And despite all the criticism, this is how low CFR & Richard Haass have fallen to in defending their invitation of Zarif, the representative of Iran’s genocidal regime.

#Shame

https://twitter.com/RichardHaass/status/1306290437435555847?s=20

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Zarif was humiliated at the UN headquarters in New York, being restricted by UN security personnel to an extremely limited area according to U.S. sanctions & regulations.

THIS is how all representatives of Iran’s genocidal regime should be treated.