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No Visa for Iran's President Ebrahim Raisi
(Wall Street Journal) Joe Lieberman and Mark D. Wallace - Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi will seek a U.S. entry visa to attend the UN General Assembly in New York in September. The Biden administration should reject his request, given Raisi's bloodstained record and Iran's continuing threats against U.S. citizens. On Wednesday the Justice Department unsealed an indictment against a member of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps for plotting a murder-for-hire scheme against John R. Bolton, a former UN ambassador and White House national security adviser. This is unacceptable behavior by the Iranian government. Tehran has directed other assassination plots on American soil, targeted former U.S. officials such as former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, and recently attempted to kill Iranian-American journalist Masih Alinejad in Brooklyn. An Iranian attack against Americans should be treated as an act of war. The least the U.S. should do is exercise its sovereign right to deny an entry visa to Mr. Raisi, a hangman who oversaw the star-chamber trials and executions of several thousand political opponents of the regime. Joe Lieberman was the Democratic vice-presidential nominee in 2000 and a U.S. senator from Connecticut (1989-2013). Mark D. Wallace served as U.S. ambassador to the UN for management and reform. They are, respectively, chairman and CEO of United Against Nuclear Iran.