Trump to address world leaders at United Nations today
The State Department said Monday that Iranian delegates who are in town for this week’s meetings will only be allowed to access “areas strictly necessary to transit to and from the UN headquarters district to conduct their official UN business.” Iranian officials are also barred from accessing luxury goods or club stores, according to a statement from the department.
“We will not allow the Iranian regime to allow its clerical elites to have a shopping spree in New York while the Iranian people endure poverty, crumbling infrastructure, and dire shortages of water and electricity,” the statement read.
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian is expected to travel to New York for this week’s meetings, Iran’s government has said.
Last month, the State Department said it would deny visas to members of the Palestinian Authority, which is a U.N. observer rather than a full-fledged member. The department cited national security and accused the organization of “undermining the prospects for peace.” Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will address the General Assembly in a video.
As frustration with the war grows, the United Kingdom, Australia and Canada formally recognized a Palestinian state over the weekend, and France followed suit at a U.N. meeting on Monday.
The Trump administration disagrees, with White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt calling those U.S. allies’ recognition of a Palestinian state “just more talk and not enough action.”
French President Emmanuel Macron announced over the summer that he would recognize a Palestinian state. In an interview last week with CBS News’ Margaret Brennan, he argued the move could disempower Hamas. U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio has called the move “reckless,” a reaction Macron called “excessive.”
Also, the Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani, is set to speak on Tuesday, after Israel targeted Hamas leaders in a strike on the Qatari capital of Doha earlier this month. Qatar condemned the move, and Mr. Trump criticized it.
Waltz previously served as Mr. Trump’s national security adviser, but he was replaced in that role by Secretary of State Marco Rubio in May.
