Iranian Foreign Minister will not attend World Economic Forum in Davos

Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi will not attend the Davos summit in Switzerland this week, the World Economic Forum (WEF) said Monday, stressing that his participation would not be “right” after Tehran’s recent deadly crackdown on demonstrations in the country.

Araghchi was supposed to speak at Davos on Tuesday lunchtime, in a one-on-one in-person conversation.

However the organisers of the gathering of political and business elites in the upscale Swiss resort town have been asked to disinvite him amid what rights groups have called a “massacre” in his country.

“The Iranian foreign minister will not be attending Davos,” WEF stated in a post on X,

“Although he was invited last fall, the tragic loss of lives of civilians in Iran over the past few weeks means that it is not right for the Iranian government to be represented at Davos this year,” the summit organisers added.