US EditionMunich Security Conference scraps invitation to Iranian minister
- On Friday, the Munich Security Conference revoked invitations to Iranian government representatives weeks before the February 13 to 15 meeting at the Bayerischer Hof hotel, Munich.
- Advice from the German Foreign Office prompted the revocation after reports of thousands of deaths by Iranian security forces, with officials reaffirming they had advised against the invitation.
- Wolfgang Ischinger, acting MSC head, initially extended an invitation but reversed it after reports that Abbas Araghchi, Iranian Foreign Minister, planned to attend; Iran had not been invited under Christoph Heusgen for three years.
- The MSC has not yet said whether Iranian opposition figures living in exile will be invited, with Reza Pahlavi, son of Iran's deposed shah, attending last year.
- The protests were triggered by a severe economic crisis and quickly turned political with calls to end clerical rule established nearly five decades ago, and an MSC spokesperson said participation was inappropriate due to the "bloody suppression of protests.
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Otherwise, the Munich Security Conference does not comment on its invitation policy. However, due to the extreme brutality against protesters, no representatives of Iran will attend – the Federal Government had also advised.
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