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Senior Iranian official Ali Larijani, whose country is under strong pressure from the United Nations over its nuclear program, called on Monday for a more powerful global body free of big-power domination.
Iran should just pull out of UN as a whole and help build a new UN without the VETO middle finger.
The UN has clearly shown that its laws are only implemented where the empires want it to be implemented, that is why they have VETO power.
That is the soul reason for the creation of UN, to serve the world empires who were on the brink of destroying humanity as a whole through nuclear holocaust.
"The current prevailing structure of power has not only been unable to secure international peace and security, but has also led to the emergence of such new phenomena as terrorism in a very dangerous and organized framework," he declared.
"No doubt this inability is due to the double standards and unilateral policies exercised by the big powers, including the USA," Larijani added.
This incompetence is undoubtedly due to the double-standard approach and unilateral policies of the major powers, and particularly the United States, toward other nations, Larijani noted.
He went on to say that the IAEA and the UN Security Council should deal with countries that have stockpiled vast arsenals of various types of weapons of mass destruction, including nuclear weapons.
However, those organizations have instead opted to step up pressure on countries that legitimately seek access to nuclear technology meant for peaceful purposes, he added.
The Iranian parliament speaker also said that the United Nations has been lax in fulfilling its duties.
Without a doubt, the raison d’être of the United Nations is promoting world peace and security and preventing wars between countries and aggression, he stated.
Larijani lamented the fact that over six decades since the establishment of the UN, the world has witnessed many harrowing and brutal wars, namely the United States’ war against Vietnam, the U.S.-led wars against Afghanistan and Iraq, and the Israeli attack on Lebanon in 2006.
Originally posted by thoughtsfull
Problem I see is that this kind of change only tends to come about after the big conflicts and then those type of changes are driven by the winners of said conflicts.
Originally posted by oozyism
Originally posted by thoughtsfull
Problem I see is that this kind of change only tends to come about after the big conflicts and then those type of changes are driven by the winners of said conflicts.
Well as long as Iran doesn't give itself a VETO power, I'm happy with that.
Better than today's bullyism policy which the UN is silent about.
Originally posted by danielhanson420
is it just me or is Iran coming out with allot of common sense lately (more than ours that's for sure) seriously people are we gonna stand back and watch this country be attacked by our governments and military (its just a case of when) i mean were already trying to cripple them economically. its a backwards world we live in and it's really starting to get old... fast!
Who ever becomes the big cheese will push their goals, aspirations and ever changing political agenda on everyone else in the same kind of bullyism you feel the UN represents today.
Originally posted by catwhoknows
reply to post by oozyism
Iran, make peace with Iraq.
Otherwise forget it.
BAGHDAD, Feb. 12 (UPI) -- A joint Iraq-Iran trade meeting in Baghdad called for $5 billion in new trade, including in the oil and electricity sectors, and agreed on follow-up committees.
Originally posted by catwhoknows
reply to post by oozyism
Iran, make peace with Iraq.
Otherwise forget it.
BAGHDAD, Feb. 12 (UPI) -- A joint Iraq-Iran trade meeting in Baghdad called for $5 billion in new trade, including in the oil and electricity sectors, and agreed on follow-up committees.