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Itsdb |
04/21/06 |
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."
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Is that insane or what? |
Clarification/Follow-up by Erewhon on 04/22/06 3:08 am:
The insanity is in believeing that no Iranian can be trusted.
That takes hatred to a new level.
Clarification/Follow-up by tomder55 on 04/22/06 11:53 am:
Ron ,What part of the current Iranian leadership do you trust ? Remember ;they are paving the way for the return of Mahdi, the hidden 12th Imam .
Clarification/Follow-up by Erewhon on 04/23/06 10:05 pm:
I didn't say anything about the present leadership. I addressed the question of whether ALL Iranians were untrustworthy. Obviously they are not.
Because a lot of Irishmen were murdering cowards does not mean that all Irishmen are murdering cowards.
To suggest otherwise about any nationality is pure fascist demagoguery. Clarification/Follow-up by Itsdb on 04/24/06 1:49 pm:
Ronnie,
Need a ladder to get down off of that high horse?
You "addressed the question of whether ALL Iranians were untrustworthy." I didn't realize I'd asked that question. It's interesting how you manage to see things that aren't there in order to position yourself on the moral high ground.
Focus here Ronnie, the post specifically mentions one Iranian, ambassador to the UN Mehdi Danesh-Yazdi, the official representative of the government of Iran to the United Nations.
You've managed to somehow reach down deep into our souls and miraculously extract how speaking of one Iranian government official equates to "believeing that no Iranian can be trusted," taking "hatred to a new level" and "pure fascist demagoguery." Wow, do you do horoscopes?
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