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The World Economic Forum is facing calls to exclude members of the Iranian regime from its upcoming summit in Davos this week.
Iran monitoring group United Against Nuclear Iran sent a letter to WEF President Borge Brende on Friday urging the group not to invite any officials from the Islamic Republic of Iran. The group told Fox News Digital that the WEF did not respond to the letter, and instead the platform added an interview with Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi to the summit program on Sunday.
WEF did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.
UANI CEO Mark Wallace, who previously served as U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations under President George W. Bush, cited the human rights group’s report regarding the mass genocide of Iranian civilians by the regime of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
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Klaus Schwab, founder of the World Economic Forum (WEF) speaks at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland. (AP Photo/Marcus Schreiber, File)
“Just this month, the Iranian regime has committed what some consider the greatest genocide in its history,” Wallace wrote to Brende. “Araghchi is a member of the Supreme National Security Council (SNSC), which reportedly issued the order to use live fire on protesting Iranian civilians. It is estimated that the regime killed at least 12,000 and up to 20,000 Iranians over the course of a few days in January as they exercised their fundamental rights to demonstrate against the Ayatollah and his tyranny.”
“Hosting Iranian regime officials like Araghchi, who whitewash this record, is outrageous and completely inappropriate for him to take the stage at a forum whose theme this year is ‘The Spirit of Dialogue.’ Instead of dialogue, the Islamic Republic offered these brave Iranians bullets,” Wallace continued.
People gather during a protest against the Iranian regime in Tehran, Iran on January 8, 2026. (Anonymous/Getty Images)
Iran’s supreme leader on Saturday acknowledged publicly for the first time that thousands of people had been killed during recent anti-government protests, the BBC reported.
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Khamenei made The comments, made during a public address on Saturday, blamed the US for the unrest and violence and said some protesters died in an “inhumane, barbaric manner”.
Protesters burn pictures of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei during a rally organized by the National Resistance Council of Iran in solidarity with the Iranian uprising in Whitehall, central London on January 11, 2026. (Carlos Jasso/AFP via Getty Images)
The US-based Iranian Human Rights Activist News Agency estimates that more than 3,000 people were more than three people died Despite weeks of unrest, Iranian authorities have not released an official death toll and other estimates are higher.
Video authenticated by BBC Persian and BBC Verify shows Iranian security forces firing at protesters during the unrest.
After reading a series of hostile posts from Khamenei’s
The death toll in Iran protests has risen in recent days as human rights groups say thousands have been killed. (MAHSA/Middle East Images/AFP via Getty Images))
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According to Politico, Trump said, “What he is guilty of as a leader of a country is the complete destruction of the country and the use of violence on a level never seen before.” “Leadership is about respect, not fear and death.”
Read Wallace’s full letter to WEF below (App users click here)
Fox News’ Jasmine Behar contributed to this report.
