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The world has changed a great deal from the time of the United Nations’ birth in 1945, and so has the United Nations. Sixty years ago, democracies, both nascent and well-established, comprised the majority of the founding nations of the UN. The members of the General Assembly were strategically aligned primarily along what would become the lines of the Cold War. America was confident that the UN would be an organization which would work in tandem with American national interests in promoting the welfare of humankind and the basic rights of every human spirit.
There is a clear lack of moral criteria. The UN does not distinguish between democracy and dictatorship, good and bad. And the enemy is getting worse.
Trump Administration Blocks Iran’s Top Diplomat From Addressing the U.N. Security Council
Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif had sought to give a speech condemning the U.S. assassination of Qassem Suleimani
BY Colum Lynch, Foreign Policy | January 6, 2020, 3:18 PM
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The Trump administration is barring Iran’s top diplomat from entering the United States this week to address the United Nations Security Council about the U.S. assassination of Iran’s top military official in Baghdad, violating the terms of a 1947 headquarters agreement requiring Washington to permit foreign officials into the country to conduct U.N. business, according to three diplomatic sources.
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif requested a visa a “few weeks ago” to enter the United States to attend a Jan. 9 Security Council meeting on the importance of upholding the U.N. Charter, according to a diplomatic source familiar with the matter. The Thursday meeting was to provide Tehran’s top diplomat with his first opportunity to directly address the world community since U.S. President Donald Trump ordered the Jan. 3 drone strike that killed Maj. Gen. Qassem Suleimani, a top Iraqi militia leader, among others.
The Iranian government was awaiting word on the visa Monday when a Trump administration official phoned U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres to inform him that the United States would not allow Zarif into the country, according to the Washington-based diplomatic source.
The move comes as the United States and Iran engaged in tit-for-tat recriminations over the killing of Suleimani. Trump tweeted over the weekend that if Iran retaliates for Suleimani’s death, it will face U.S. attacks on 52 targets—the number of hostages held by Iran in 1979. “Let this serve as a WARNING that if Iran strikes any Americans, or American assets, we have … targeted 52 Iranian sites (representing the 52 American hostages taken by Iran many years ago), some at a very high level & important to Iran & the Iranian culture, and those targets, and Iran itself, WILL BE HIT VERY FAST AND VERY HARD,” he said. “The USA wants no more threats!”
Tehran, meanwhile, announced Sunday it was ending its commitment to limit enrichment of uranium as part of its 2015 nuclear deal, which Trump pulled out of in 2018 and then followed up by reimposing tough sanctions on Iran.
But even before the current crisis, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in recent months had sought to restrict the ability of Zarif—a skilled debater who has studied in the United States and has extensive contacts with American journalists—to make his case to the American public during previous visits to the United States.
In July, the United States restricted his movement to a few blocks in Manhattan and Queens, preventing Zarif from making his regular visits to TV studios, universities, and think tanks. Pompeo defended the decision, noting that American diplomats lack freedom to travel in Iran.
The United States broke off diplomatic relations with Iran after the revolution. Iran is permitted to maintain a diplomatic outpost in midtown Manhattan to conduct U.N. business.
On the eve of the U.N. General Assembly debate in September 2019, Pompeo hinted that he might bar the Iranian delegation, led by President Hassan Rouhani and Zarif, from entering the United States, saying that Iran was responsible for carrying out an earlier drone and missile strike on two critical Saudi Arabian oil installations.
“The actions that the Iranian regime took violated the U.N. Charter,” Pompeo said at the time. “If you’re connected to a foreign terrorist organization, it seems to me it would be a reasonable thing to think about whether they ought to be prevented to attend a meeting which is about peace.”
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7 Comments
4 years ago
One of the main architects of the UN, and it’s Secretary General at the initial UN conference creating the UNCharter, was none other than Soviet spy Alger Hiss.
4 years ago
Reply to
Hugh Lunn
I didn’t know that.
RIGHT YOU ARE!!!
Hiss was Secretary-General of the United Nations Conference on International Organization (the convention that created the UN Charter), which was held in San Francisco from 25 April 1945 to 26 June 1945.
4 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
GREAT VISUAL AIDS, felix1999, ON POINT AS USUAL! FACT IS THE USA SHOULD LIMIT ITS INVOLVEMENT IN THE U.N. TO THE SECURITY COUNCIL AND ASSEMBLY. IF THE U.N. DOESN’T LIKE U.S. TERRITORY RESTRICTIONS FOR OUR NATIONAL SECURITY, THEY CAN USE THEIR LEAGUE OF NATIONS PROPERTY AND HAVE THE U.N. MEET IN SWITZERLAND EVERY OTHER YEAR, ANY WAY!
WHITTAKER CHAMBERS WAS RIGHT ON POINT RE: ALGER HISS WHO GOT OFF EASY! KNOWLEDGEABLE, FORMER COMMUNIST AND FRIEND OF CHAMBERS, JULIET STUART POYNTZ PAID FOR LEAVING THE COMMUNISTS WITH HER LIFE AS A U.S. CITIZEN IN THE USA KILLED BY SOVIET AGENTS WHILE HISS ONLY SERVED 3.5 YEARS. HE SHOULD HAVE BEEN EXECUTED FOR BETRAYING THE USA AS A STATE DEPT OFFICIAL WHICH MIGHT HAVE DISCOURAGED SOME OF THE TRUMP IMPEACHMENT TREASON GOING ON TODAY BY THE GEORGE SOROS-IAN GLOBALIST BANKING CLIQUE’S DEEP STATE IN THE USA!
4 years ago
Good for the Trump administration! We need to get out of the U.N. . It’s just a bunch of Communist loving
Muslim and globalists using the U.S. as their ATM machine. It’s corrupt.
4 years ago
MAY GOD BLESS AND PROTECT THE GREATEST PRESIDENT THE UNITED STATES HAS EVER HAD, ASIDE FROM GEORGE WASHINGTON.
God bless and save AMERICA from the DEMONRATS!
KICK THE U.N. OUT OF AMERICA!
4 years ago
Well past the time the UN is cordially invited to leave the country. I understand that Dubai or some such oil rich nation with an average daytime temperature north of 100°F had made the offer for the UN to move there.
If the UN won’t leave, well, water and electricity might have problems reaching the building. For security reasons, everyone must pass through a rather slow checkpoint to get inside… every single day. Don’t plan on going out for lunch, though I hear the chefs at the UN are superb.
Fifty-two muslim Shira based nations. Something like 122 member states. A fairly stacked deck. The US pays the most of all nations for its membership. Some nations pay next to nothing and are in arrears. Time for the UN to go the way of the League of Nations.
4 years ago
OK
