U.N. police detain Israeli ambassador

"U.N. police temporarily detained Israeli Ambassador to the United Nations Gilad Erdan after the diplomat held a photo up during a talk on the floor by Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi on Tuesday.

Video footage was provided to JNS, which was told that Erdan was released with the assistance of Israel’s security and diplomatic teams.

‘While the butcher of Tehran is speaking at the U.N. and is being respected by the international community, hundreds of Iranians are protesting outside, shouting and calling on the international community to wake up and help them,’ Erdan stated. ‘It is a disgrace that member states stay to listen to a mass murderer.’

‘It should not be possible for a murderer with blood on his hands to receive a platform here at the U.N.,’ he added. ‘I left the speech to make it clear that the State of Israel stands by the Iranian people. I call on the international community to stop the madness and prevent murderers and antisemites from coming and speaking here at the U.N.’

Erdan waved a photograph of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Iranian woman who was imprisoned for not properly covering her hair and then killed in custody a year ago. Her death ignited a wave of protests in the Islamic Republic..."