August 1, 2006
Iran Respects the UN Less Than I Do!
Iranian President Rejects Resolution
Iran’s hard-line president rejected a U.N. Security Council deadline for it to suspend uranium enrichment, saying Tuesday Tehran would not be pressured into stopping its nuclear program.
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad told a crowd in northeastern Iran his country would not give in to United Nations’ threats.
“If some think they can still speak with threatening language to the Iranian nation, they must know that they are badly mistaken,” he said in a speech broadcast carried live on state-run television.
This doesn’t surprise me. They watched their neighbor, Iraq, spend 12 years ignoring UN resolutions. And after the political fallout of the Iraq war, they know they can go 20 years before there are any real consequences. Long before then, they’ll have a nuclear weapon, and will be in a much stronger negotiating position than they are now.
Of course, when the United Nations waters down a resolution they probably wouldn’t enforce in the first place, Iran pretty well knows they’re in the clear.
Earlier Tuesday, Japan and Russia both urged Iran to comply with the resolution.
“We call on Iran to listen to the opinion of world society,” a Russian Foreign Ministry statement said Tuesday.
Because of Russian and Chinese demands, the text of the Security Council resolution was watered down from earlier drafts that would have made the threat of sanctions immediate. The resolution now requires the council to hold more discussions before it considers sanctions.
“You hear that? You’ve got a month! No more! And after that month, well… We’re going to get back in a room and talk about what we’re going to do about it!”
Oooh… Scary.
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“Hans, Hans, you’re bweakin’ my bahlls heah Hans!”
“You must comply with the resolution Mr. Il, or else.”
“Or else…whaaaaaaat?”
“Or else we will get very angry. And we will write you a letter telling you how very angry we are.”
Brad, I have yet to see anything the UN has done other than screw things up. They don’t seem to have any authority.
Interesting that the nuclear threat in the Middle East – Israel – is ignored.
And I thought it was impossible for anyone to have less respect for the UN than I…