Critics slam UN after it lowers flag to half-staff in honor of 'mass murderer' Iranian president
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The United Nations on Tuesday lowered its flag to half-staff in honor of late Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, a controversial figure critics say committed mass murder in Iran.
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"One might say this sign of U.N. respect for mass murderers and terrorist executioners is not a surprise," said Anne Bayefsky, director of the Touro Institute on Human Rights and the Holocaust, and president of Human Rights Voices.
"The U.N. Security Council or General Assembly has refused to condemn the terrorist organization Hamas and its October 7th atrocities, orchestrated through Tehran. Iran is the leading state sponsor of terrorism, but the U.N. has no definition of terrorism because Islamic states claim killing Jews and other targets, including Americans, isn't terror," Bayefsky said in a statement to Fox News Digital.
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