(Fox News) Bradford Betz - UN security personnel on Tuesday detained Israeli Ambassador to the UN Gilad Erdan shortly after he left the General Assembly Hall to protest a speech by Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi. Before leaving the hall, Erdan held up a picture of Mahsa Amini, an Iranian woman who was brutally murdered last year by the country's morality police for not properly wearing her hijab. A caption accompanying the photo read: "Iranian women deserve freedom now!" Erdan told Fox News: "The UN's lost moral compass was on full display today. Being detained for standing with the Iranian people and protesting a vile mass murderer who was given an audience on the global stage is utterly disgraceful....Other ambassadors have previously held signs for ideological reasons, including in recent sessions on the war in Ukraine, with no repercussions." "Israel is standing with the people of Iran, and we want to live in peace with the people of Iran. But their regime is the one who is preventing it and causing them to suffer so much." Former President Trump sanctioned Raisi for his role in the massacre of 5,000 Iranian political prisoners in 1988 and the regime's slaughter of 1,500 Iranian demonstrators in 2019.
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