Carter: ‘Inappropriate’ For U.S. To Block Member Of Terrorist Group From Entering Country
” Former President Jimmy Carter yesterday said he is supportive of letting a known member of a terrorist group, Hamid Aboutalebi, into the United States as Iran’s newest ambassador to the United Nations.
Aboutalebi was a member of the Muslim student group who held 52 Americans hostage at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran for more than a year beginning in 1979 during Carter’s presidency.
When asked in an interview if the United States should block Aboutalebi’s entrance to U.N. headquarters in New York, Carter told radio station WTOP: “You know, those were college students at that time, and I think that they have matured. …I think it would be inappropriate for the United States to try to block someone that Iran wanted to choose.”
While Aboutalebi claims that he was not part of the initial hostage takeover, he admits that he was a part of the organization that carried it out. According to Iranian-American activist Banafesh Zand, Aboutalebi served as a translator at a news conference hosted by the militant group just weeks after the takeover. He was 22 years old at the time.”
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I have always liked President Carter in that I believe that He is the most moral President we have had in my lifetime, I was born in 1956. A close second would be President Reagan. Many would think these two men to be opposites and in many ways this is true, they are, when it came down to their different policies they were different. But, I am speaking of morals at this moment, in this realm they had many of the same beliefs. Now in regards to President Carter’s policy beliefs I don’t agree with Him a lot of the time, like in this instance in this article. President Carter is wrong on this issue. What is going on here is simply Irans “Supreme Leader” slapping all Americans in the face. If this man ever sets foot on American soil he should be sent to Guantanamo for 444 days, then released with a ticket straight back to Iran.