Whatever the Farsi term might be for chutzpah, Iran’s despots put on a staggering display of such stuff this past week. Apparently it wasn’t enough for Tehran that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad flew to New York to provide the opening burlesque on Monday of the United Nations nonproliferation review conference, followed by Ahmadinejad’s usual whirl of interviews and press conferencing in the heart of the Great Satan. On top of that, Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki lingered to host a dinner at the plush Manhattan residence of Iran’s ambassador to the UN. And not just any old dinner. This was a dinner for the 15 members of the UN Security Council.
Whoa — let’s hit “pause,” and consider for a moment what that means. With this dinner, Iran designed a gathering that amounted to a shadow version of the UN Security Council — plus Iran itself, in the presiding seat. The members of the Security Council did not have to come. But, with the apparent (and quiet) exceptions of Nigeria and Gabon, they came.
None of them should have come. Iran is in flagrant violation of a series of binding UN sanctions meant to stop its race toward the nuclear bomb. Iran has deceived the UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency, scoffed at UN Security Council requests, demands and deadlines. And, P.S., according to the U.S. State Department, Iran is the world’s “most active state sponsor of terrorism.” (Terrorism is something the UN has not yet managed to officially define, but it is also something one might hope the Security Council would be against).
But, hey, why should the UN Security Council let Iran’s global terrorist networks and sanctions-violating nuclear program get in the way of a free meal in New York? Apparently forgetting President Barack Obama’s claim that Iran is finding itself increasingly “isolated,” the Obama State Department sent an envoy to Iran’s Manhattan dinner party. So did at least a dozen other members of the Security Council (Inner-City Press reports that Uganda came late, Mexico left early, and Gabon and Nigeria didn’t show up). President Barack Obama’s administration, which sent the number two envoy from the U.S. Mission, saw this Iranian banquet as “an opportunity for Iran to speak to its international obligations” — as one unnamed official told the Washington Post.
Who scripts this U.S. diplo-babble? Iran has been speaking loud and clear to its “international obligations,” and the gist of what Iran’s despots have been saying, and doing, is too rude to print in this space.
Obama, who is notoriously thin skinned when it comes to any criticism of himself or his policies here at home, doesn’t seem to mind being made a complete ass of by A’Jad — he’s making him a complete laughing stock — making him his personal fool.
Reality surpasses fiction. Evidently, nobody wants to miss the opportunity to partake in whatever the Persian theocracy is up to. Obama’s refusal to deal responsibly with Teheran, and his shameful failure to support its internal opposition, has evidently convinced every member of the so-called “international community” that it would be unwise to alienate the next nuclear power.
The open hand and mythical “unclenched fist” doctrine is bearing its bitter fruits, and the Obama administration does not show any serious intention to harden its stance after the original mistake was so blatantly exposed for all to see. Fundamentally transforming the USA has no place in the US constitution, but the place of choice in the mind of our alien leader.
Everything is upside down, and it’s not funny. Can the congress pass a resolution that would expose the president’s dereliction of duty by declaring openly the duty of the US to oppose Tehran and support Israel?
“Iran Grabs a Seat at the UN’s High Table — By Hosting the Dinner”
And Iran, without a doubt, proceeded to serve heaping plates of excrement…which were dutifully eaten by the U.S. State Department delegation.
The hopeless drunks have opened a saloon in New York, the biggest one in the world, and we’re buying them drinks.
It is beyond me that there are no voices in this administration not willing to go against what Obama wants. It only shows that everyone is onboard with his catastrophic and ignorant policies. They are creating a world war, only this time it will not be millions dead but billions. I cannot understand such gross stupidity.This is beyond incompetent, this is placing the United States in mortal danger. Whoever proposes this acquiesence to evil is as much a traitor as those that plant a bomb in Times Square.
Did anyone oppose Hitler in Nazi Germany? Not until the end when the writing was on the wall.
The U.S. RSVPed “yes,” came knocking at the door, and ate what was served.
Crow ?
The Iranians know that a good meal appeals to the self-indulgent sorts who affix themselves to “The UN”. They’ve watched them operate in various meet and greets about the world, e.g., nearly sinking entire islands while holding confabs on “global warming” and the like.
Didn’t the Iranians get a softer touch from the IAEA after presenting El Baradei with a hand woven rug with his own likeness ?
If there was every any doubt that the U.N. is worse than worthless – and there never really was – this would settle it.
It was absurd enough to have the U.S.S.R. on the Security Council. But at least, at the time, they were not actively engaged in killing Americans in the middle of a war in a Soviet satellite country. We are in a war against jihadists and, to shift the metaphorical time, Tehran is the Berlin of that conflict.
Maybe, instead of invading Iran first, we should put a certain building in New York at the top of the list.
Let em eat cake….
to coin an old phrase. Good Article, thanks.
The whole Arab world is laughing at us as they are sitting on U.N. human rights councils and now Iran is on the Women’s rights council- what a joke! In the meantime U.S. attends a dinner by Iran while our soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan are attacked by terrorists who are funded or trained by Iran- while they plot to attack us in the U.S. as well. OH, and did we forget they are on their way to arming all who have a grudge with nuclear weapons? The U.N has lost all credibility and now the U.S. is following the same path.
We are so screwed!
The US under Obama is not only becoming a laughingstock, but a VERY dangerous place for its citizens, and by extension for the entire west. Obama is busy at EVERY turn weakening American power. He has said many times on the world stage that the US has to be no higher in esteem and power than other nations, and he is making it his mission to knock her down to a the level of 3rd world countries.
The first way to achieve this is to collapse the economy from within, and counterintutively institute polices that will make sure to get her into an unsustainable debt. I have NO doubt that history will record, that from the day Obama took office the US became a shadow of itself.