Posted on 04/20/2006 9:28:00 AM PDT by anotherview
Apr. 19, 2006 22:32 | Updated Apr. 20, 2006 6:14
Disarmament board chooses Iranian
By NATHAN GUTTMAN
WASHINGTON
As the international community looks into ways of stopping Iran from developing nuclear weapons, an Iranian representative was elected to be the vice chair of the UN's disarmament commission.
The commission, which began its annual conference last week, was established by the UN General Assembly in the early 50's in order to promote disarmament and to review international treaties dealing with nuclear energy.
The commission does not have any authority to enforce its decisions and is not connected to the International Atomic Energy Agency, which is the international nuclear watchdog that is now investigating Iran's nuclear program and is expected to report to the UN Security Council by the end of the month.
The new Iranian vice chair, Mehdi Danesh-Yazdi, who is also the country's ambassador to the UN, said last week that Iran will cooperate with the IAEA and will "seek an acceptable venue for holding transparent talks with interested parties." The ambassador, who is one of three vice-chairpersons, said during the meeting of the commission that Israel's nuclear stockpile is among "the major sources of concern with regard to global peace and security."
The election of Iran to the senior post in the disarmament commission drew sharp criticism from US lawmakers and from Jewish organizations that are fighting against a nuclear Iran.
Representative Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), who heads the House subcommittee on the Middle East issued a statement in which she compared the decision to "appointing a serial killer to serve as a juror in a murder trial."
Ros-Lehtinen added that choosing Iran to be the vice chair of the commission proves that the UN and the international community are "ineffective in preventing Iran from achieving nuclear capabilities."
The American Jewish Congress' chairman Jack Rosen said that the vote in the disarmament committee amounts to "a rude slap in the face of the International Atomic Energy Agency and the UN Security Council."
Since I posted this I obviously do see the same things wrong with this that you do. How do we change it? In Israel I don't know of one political party in the Knesset which has advocated pulling out of the U.N. In the U.S. Republicans seem to support the U.N. as well. Why????
No, we are. For continuing to fund them.
STOP THE MADNESS!!!!!!!1
Yeah, his own trial.
It is simply the cold truth that there are a lot of people stupid enough to believe that a nuclear-armed Iran is a good idea. It's the price paid for decades of anti-U.S. and anti-colonial propaganda among the internationalists and there is absolutely no indication that anything is changing. The consensus among these internationalists is that Israel destroyed is also a good idea because it will serve as an object lesson to those who think that a single country may defy international - meaning their - opinions.
This particular action was a deliberate, gratuitous, and ultimately counterproductive slap in the face to all of the West, not just the U.S. This particular branch of the UN isn't all that different from the rest of it, just a little more brazen.
With the First Pick in the 2006 United Nations Draft the Disarmament Board Selects: Terrorist, Islamic Republic of Iran, from the Middle East.
The UN? FM!
"Or like putting OJ in charge of battered women's problems and solutions."
HAHA! Got to love OJ!
The Human Rights Commission is now on the clock!
Only the US can be this monumentally Stupid, after all we supply the forum for this madness.
You are definately not alone.
I think Bolton is changing the tone somewhat, but you are right that we aid and abet this nonsense.
Nope, but they like lucrative oil contracts. Ask Saddam. My bet is on the baksheesh...
Follow the money!
The UN has to be the most corrupt, impotent, and irrelevant bunch of clowns I've ever seen!
Proving once again that not everything in nature has a purpose.
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