Kofi Annan’s Rendezvous with Tehran
Why would Iran’s rulers be so pleased to welcome Kofi Annan? No doubt they are familiar with his record generally of finding ways to do business with dictators, as he did with Saddam and has just been doing with Assad. But on the Iranian front, there are details especially worth recalling. Here’s a photo of Annan shaking hands in 2000 with Hassan Nasrallah, leader of Iran’s client terrorist group Hezbollah, thanking him for maintaining peace in southern Lebanon. Here is Annan welcoming Iran’s foreign minister in 2006 to attend the inaugural session of the newly “reformed” UN Human Rights Council in Geneva, where Annan opined that Iran was taking “very seriously” the offered incentives to back away from its nuclear program. (So much for that).
And here is one more incident from Annan’s final year as secretary general in 2006, shortly after the UN Security Council had passed a resolution putting Tehran on notice that unless Iran stopped enriching uranium, UN sanctions would follow. Iran replied not with compliance, but with threats. Right around that time, Annan visited Tehran. Soon afterward, during the UN General Assembly opening in New York, Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad — then visiting New York — told reporters at a press conference that Annan had told him to ignore the Security Council resolution: “The secretary general told me to disregard what has happened for the time being, resort to diplomacy.” A spokesman for Annan denied this, saying Annan “did not tell Iran to disregard” the Security Council resolution.
Who was telling the truth, Ahmadinejad or Annan? Tough call. But here we are, six years later. Syria’s dictator is striving to keep his bloody grip on power. Hezbollah, having already provoked a war with Israel in 2006, sits atop a vastly enhanced arsenal in Lebanon. Iran’s regime, demonstrably linked to al-Qaeda (among its kennel of terror mascots), is closing in on nuclear weapons. And here comes UN-Arab League Joint Special Envoy Kofi Annan, jetting once again to Tehran to broker … what do we call it these days? Peace?
Forget about Annan. He is just a pimple on the ass that is the United Nations. The selfsame orginization that is demanding an immediate investigation into the Traynor Martin incident. If Annan is a pimple, the UN Human Rights orginization is a pustule. The UN itself is a festering abcess in Manhattan. Better to have delegated North Koreas’ current clown in charge for the task. Why we continue to pay for this farce is beyond understanding. Instead of sinking hundreds of millions of dollars into refurbishing this embarrassment, it should be razed to the ground. Let Trump put up some nice condos. Even an empty lot would be more attractive than this refuge for the garbage of the world.
Kofi is a parody of a parody.
Quote: “What will Annan do in Tehran?”
That’s a spooky question Claudia. Warily predictable however.
Cease fire was never going to work. What did happen though is Russia and China signed off on it which will make their position difficult when more intervention is pushed for in the UN.
Kofi Annan is a remarkable man.
United Nations + Reverse racism/affirmative action + Peter Principle = Monumental failures leading to deaths of thousands across many places and many years.
“Why would Iran’s rulers be so pleased to welcome Kofi Annan?”
Because it’s a great way to stall and kill time. As long as the Iranians can use this idiot to give the impression that they are negotiating, they will use him. I’m sure the Iranians would want Annan to stay in Iran for a year or so, just until they put their finishing touches on their nuclear bomb. After that, all objections to them having the bomb will become moot. That is, of course, unless the Israelis decide that time is up and decide to attack.
Didn’t the Europeans negotiate and “talk” to the Iranians for literally years over their nuclear program and what did it get them? Nothing. A big fat zero. The Iranians are hell-bent on getting this bomb and, with Obama in office, there isn’t much that’s going to stop them.
America should simply stop paying its dues to the United Nations. Without our cash, like so many other things supported by American cash, it will simply wither and collapse….hopefully with no further loss of American life.
Israel and the United Nations
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GpXMe_R2BZk&feature=player_embedded
he is back to steal another 10 million dollars like last time?