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Iranian MP Calls for Relocation of Int’l Bodies from US Soil, Tasnim News Agency, April 13, 2014

(His proposal should find ample support from conservatives in the United States. How about moving the U.N to Havana, Cuba, Caracas, Venezuela or any other happy place where the peasants are expected to behave as their masters direct? The U.N. Commission on Human Rights should feel insanely comfortable there. — DM)

TEHRAN (Tasnim) – A senior Iranian legislator on Sunday said the world community should reconsider establishing international organization on the US soil.

Referring to the US government’s decision to bar Hamid Abutalebi, Iran’s newly-appointed ambassador to the United Nations, from entering the US, Mohammad Saleh Jokar, member of Iranian parliament’s National Security and Foreign Policy Commission, told the Tasnim News Agency that given Washington’s “entirely irrational decision”, it is necessary that the world community consider to relocate the headquarters of world bodies and international organizations from the US.

On Tuesday, after the US Senate voted to bar Hamid Abutalebi and the White House said Abutalebi will not be welcomed in the US, and described his nomination as “not viable”. The House of Representatives unanimously passed the same legislation on Thursday.

Jokar said the legislation passed by the US Congress was against the spirit of international laws and showed (the Americans’) disregard for the approvals of international bodies.

He also underlined that the UN secretary general must take a decisive stance against this US move and condemned it if he is truthful and impartial and is not under the influence of certain governments.

According to reports, Washington has decided to deny a visa to Abutalebi over his possible involvement in the takeover of the US embassy in Tehran during post-revolution incidents in 1979.

On November 4, 1979, and in less than a year after the victory of the Islamic Revolution that toppled a US-backed monarchy, Iranian university students that called themselves “students following the line of (the late) Imam (Khomeini)” seized the US embassy in Tehran.

The students justified the takeover by insisting that the compound had become a center of espionage and planning to overthrow the newly established Islamic system in Iran.

The students occupying the embassy later published documents proving that the compound was indeed engaged in plans and measures to overthrow the Islamic system.

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