[Velveeta]

Wow. How can that be?

[rickylc]

They have been bought off by oil. The same thing Iraq did before the war, bought security council votes to prevent an invasion. The oil for food program was a total scam, Kofi himself made untold amounts of money off of Iraqi oil. The discrepancies in the UN's books run into the billions of dollars. No wonder nobody on the security council wanted Saddam to go! It meant the end of their gravy train.

There have also been many nations that have sold Iran technology and assisted with the development of their nuclear capability. I would suspect blackmail with this information is coming into play too.