August 06, 2021
Iranian media have given extensive coverage to a call from several US senators for President Biden to block President Raisi from entering the US to speak to the UN General Assembly this fall. Rightwing Republicans routinely call for hated foreign leaders to be kept from the UN when Democrats hold the White House. They are normally silent when Republicans hold the White House. No foreign head of government has ever been stopped from entering the US to speak to the UN.
