29th May 2024 - The United Nations has announced it plans to hold a memorial service on the occasion of the death of Ebrahim Raisi, President of the Iranian regime. Dennis Francis, President of the UN General Assembly wrote a letter to Antonio Guterres, UN Secretary General, requesting that a memorial be held to "pay tribute to the memory of the late President of the Islamic Republic of Iran", on 30th May at the General Assembly Hall in New York.
This comes as a number of members of both the UN and the EU Parliament have sent messages of condolences following the death of Raisi and Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, who was the Foreign Affairs Minister of the regime. At the same time, many more representatives have taken to social media with #NotInMyName to show their stance against these condolences.
From June 30 to July 3, for four consecutive days, the Iranian communities held five major conferences and panels, alongside a major rally in Paris with thousands of supporters attending. The aim was to draw the attention of the international community to a pressing issue: with the terrorist theocracy in Iran gone, the world will be a better place and this change is possible. Yet this year’s Free Iran summit came against the backdrop of several internationally influenced matters in which Tehran was the party with the most at stake and thus with the most undertaking.
