By Matthew Russell Lee, Patreon Podcast
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EDNY COURT / UN GATE, June 28 – 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Guterres responded positively to entreaties by indicted Iran lobbyist Kaveh Afrisaibi, documents now sought to be withdrawn from the Federal court file but obtained by Inner City Press show.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 June 28, Afrasiabi has told the EDNY court that he has complained to Iran about misinformation about UN approvals, citing Zarif and Khoshroo. Full email on Patreon here. Still no answers at all from the UN of Guterres, who in similar fashion has grabbed more time in power by blocking at least 7 opposition candidates. We'll have more on this.
In April 2021 Afrasiabi wrote to PEN (which has done nothing about the UN roughing up and banning Inner City Press) that " in January 2021, the outgoing rogue Trump administration that made a mockery of US Constitution and international law orchestrated the fifth episode of my wrongful arrest and imprisonment, accusing me of violating the Foreign Agent Registration Act."
Reports to the UN, from a man now arrested under US FARA. And from Guterres and his spokespeople Stephane Dujarric and Melissa Fleming? Nothing. Impunity.
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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