On Tuesday, we talked about how Democrats in the Senate had lined up unanimously behind Ted Cruz in the hopes of denying a diplomatic visa to would-be Iranian UN envoy, Hamid Aboutalebi. Aboutalebi was a terrorist belonged to the "student group" which held 52 Americans hostage for 444 days following the 1979 attack on the U.S. Embassy in Iran. In a direct slap in the face to the United States, Tehran selected him to be their newest UN delegate, and Cruz vowed to keep him out of Manhattan.
