{"id":246448,"date":"2026-01-19T16:14:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T16:14:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/246448\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T16:14:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T16:14:07","slug":"davos-disinvites-irans-top-diplomat-after-bloody-crackdown-on-protests-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/246448\/","title":{"rendered":"Davos disinvites Iran\u2019s top diplomat after bloody crackdown on protests \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tehran has faced international condemnation in recent weeks after anti-government protests sparked a violent crackdown by authorities that killed more than 3,900 people, according to the AP news agency based on reports by activists. Araghchi has\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/iran-regime-is-finished-says-germany-friedrich-merz\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">denounced the protestors\u2019 actions as \u201c violent riots.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hours before the Swiss forum\u2019s announcement,\u00a0U.S. Republican Senator Lindsey Graham slammed organizers for having invited Tehran\u2019s top diplomat.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am sure an invite to the Iranian Foreign Minister to attend the World Economic Forum in Davos will be a morale booster to the protestors who are dying in the streets to attain the liberties and freedoms Europe takes for granted \u2014 maybe not. For those in charge of these programs, what the hell are you thinking?\u201d Graham <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/LindseyGrahamSC\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/x.com\/LindseyGrahamSC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>He added: \u201cInviting the Iranian Foreign Minister to speak now would be akin to inviting Hitler to a world event after Kristallnacht. This decision gives tone deaf a new meaning.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The WEF runs from Jan. 19-23; U.S. President Donald Trump is scheduled to deliver a speech on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The Munich Security Conference also said last Friday\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/munich-security-conference-disinvites-iran-foreign-minister\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">it had disinvited Iranian representatives<\/a>, including Araghchi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tehran has faced international condemnation in recent weeks after anti-government protests sparked a violent crackdown by authorities that&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246449,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[131544,5471,6557,42,87,70878,43,3950,40,38,41,39,1032],"class_list":["post-246448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-davos","tag-democracy","tag-diplomacy","tag-headlines","tag-iran","tag-lindsey-graham","tag-news","tag-switzerland","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246448\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}