[ April 17, 2024 ]
Ironically, the United Nations was established to support and spread democracy and freedom not impose barbaric anti-human measures on the world.
But the world’s largest Islamic supremacist world body, the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), has enormous influence at the UN (56 Muslim countries vote in one unchallenged bloc) and has relentlessly pursued sharia resolutions for decades.
The OIC is one of the largest intergovernmental organizations in the world. It encompasses 56 Muslim states plus the Palestinian Authority. Spread over four continents, it claims to speak in the name of the ummah (the universal Muslim community), which numbers about 1.3 billion. The OIC’s mission is to unite all Muslims worldwide by rooting them in the Koran and the Sunnah — the core of traditional Islamic civilization and values. It aims at strengthening solidarity and cooperation among all its members, in order to protect the interests of Muslims everywhere and to galvanize the ummah into a unified body. The OIC is a unique organization — one that has no equivalent in the world. It unites the religious, economic, military, and political strength of 56 states.
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This new attack on freedom of speech tactic must have been formulated at the Organization of Islamic Cooperation’s (OIC) forum in London to counter Islamophobia.
The 56 Muslim countries (plus the “Palestinian” terror group) mean to impose the Islamic blasphemy laws which include the death penalty for those who blaspheme or mock Muhammad. Surely you jest? Surely you die.
To paraphrase Islamic scholar Bat Ye’or, the OIC is a “would-be, universal caliphate.” It might look different from the caliphates of the Ottomans, Fatimids, and Abbasids. It might resemble, instead, a thoroughly modern trans-national bureaucracy. But, already, the OIC exercises significant power through the United Nations, and through the European Union, which has been eager to accommodate the OIC while simultaneously endowing the U.N. with increasing authority for global governance. Among the other organizations that Bat Ye’or says are doing the OIC’s bidding are the U.N. Alliance of Civilizations, the U.N. Commission on Human Rights, and the European Parliamentary Association for Euro-Arab Cooperation (PAEAC).
UN Security Council rejects US resolution to extend Iran arms embargo
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said the decision of the Council was ‘inexcusable.’
By Adam Shaw, Ben Evansky | Fox News
US pushes UN to extend Iran arms embargo
The U.N. Security Council on Friday rejected a U.S. resolution to extend a thirteen-years-old arms embargo on Iran due to expire in October — a move that will likely result in the Trump administration attempting to extend the embargo unilaterally.
placeholderThe short resolution, which would have extended the embargo “until the Security Council decides otherwise,” mustered only two votes in the chamber — the U.S. and the Dominican Republic. It needed nine to pass, and even if it had gained that many, would likely have been shot down by a veto from China and Russia.
US INTRODUCES UPDATED DRAFT SECURITY COUNCIL RESOLUTION TO EXTEND IRAN ARMS EMBARGO
Russia and China voted no, but did not need to deploy a veto, while the remaining members of the Council abstained.
The embargo is due to expire on Oct. 18 as part of the 2015 Iran nuclear deal — formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPoA). The U.S. has been engaged in a significant diplomatic effort to get allies to embargo extended, warning that it would give Iran access to weapons that it could use to destabilize the region and sell to countries like Yemen, Venezuela and Syria.
U.S. officials have warned that the expiration of the embargo would allow Iran to buy fighter jets, attack choppers, tanks, submarines and missiles with a range of up to 300 km.
In a statement, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that the Council “failed today to uphold its fundamental mission set.”
“It rejected a reasonable resolution to extend the 13-year old arms embargo on Iran and paved the way for the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism to buy and sell conventional weapons without specific U.N. restrictions in place for the first time in over a decade,” he said. “The Security Council’s failure to act decisively in defense of international peace and security is inexcusable.”
U.N. Ambassador Kelly Craft said the U.S. was “sickened – but not surprised – as the clear majority of Council members gave the green light to Iran to buy and sell all manner of conventional weapons.”
“Failing to step up to this moral challenge validates the world’s number one state sponsor of terror, just to save face and protect a failed political deal made outside the Council,” she said, saying the resolution’s failure “outlines perfectly this Council’s current condition of paralysis and inaction in the face of growing threats.”
Pompeo said that a number of Arab nations as well as Israel supported extending the embargo. But a number of diplomats were concerned that if it extended the arms embargo, Iran would leave the already-fragile deal, from which the U.S. announced its withdrawal in 2018.
Amb. Kelly Craft on push to extend Iran arms embargo, human rights issues in ChinaVideoActing UK Ambassador Jonathan Allen said in a statement that while the U.K. had set out its concerns of Iran’s destabilizing behavior in the region, the UK abstained, “because it was clear that it would not attract the support of the Council and would not represent a basis for achieving consensus” and would therefore not contribute to regional stability.
“Nevertheless, we stand ready to work with Council Members and JCPoA participants to seek a path forward that could secure the support of the Council,” he said.
In a long statement to the Council, Iranian Ambassador Majid Takht Ravanchi accused the U.S. of creating a “manufactured crisis about Iran’s nuclear program,” and that it was now “manufacturing a new crisis under the so-called label of “arms proliferation.”
Iranian dissidents were dismayed at the possibility of the embargo’s expiration, with Maryam Rajavi, the President-elect of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), describing an embargo as as “indispensable to regional and global peace and security.”
placeholder“The regime’s unimpeded purchase and sale of weapons will have no result other than terrorism, warmongering, and export of fundamentalism,” she said.
Israel’s newly-installed Ambassador Gilad Erdan hard harsh words for the the Council, calling the rejection of the resolution “a disgrace.”
“The Council has utterly failed in its responsibility of maintaining international peace and security. This decision will further destabilize the Middle East, and increase the spread of violence around the world,” he said.
The U.S. has said in no uncertain terms that it intends to use other means to extend the arms embargo, and could do so as early as next week. U.N. Ambassador Kelly Craft had said that the U.S. will “use every tool in our toolbox.”
BRIAN HOOK, US SPECIAL ENVOY FOR IRAN, TO STEP DOWN; ELLIOTT ABRAMS TO TAKE POST
Specifically, U.N. Resolution 2231, which enshrined the deal, includes a snapback mechanism that allows an individual nation to reimpose expiring sanctions on Iran — including the arms embargo. Although the U.S. left the Iran deal, it claims to still retain rights under 2231 and is likely to seek to use that power.
Behnam Ben Taleblu, a senior fellow and Iran expert at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), told Fox News that while Iran was the “big winner,” so too were Russia and China.
“From both a mercantilist and strategic perspective, selectively empowering Iran means more headaches for America in the Middle East, which translates to less time and resources spent on great power competition,” he said.
However, he warned that the diplomatic setback for the U.S. was likely only to be temporary: “Today’s vote means that Washington will almost certainly have to press ahead for a full ‘snapback’ of sanctions. A piecemeal approach does not work.”
Russian President Vladimir Putin earlier Friday called for a meeting of leaders of the five permanent Security Council members, along with Germany and Iran, in what the Kremlin called an effort to avoid escalation.
”If the leaders are fundamentally ready for a conversation, we propose to promptly coordinate the agenda,” Putin said. “The alternative is to further build up tension, to increase the risk of conflict. This development must be avoided.”
French President Emmanuel Macron’s office confirmed France’s “availability in principle” to Putin’s proposal.
Craft said in an interview with The Associated Press on Thursday that the United States was “keeping the space open” for talks with Britain, France and Germany, as well as Russia and China.
placeholderHowever, she warned that “we will not take no for an answer.”
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24 Comments
3 years ago
Michael R. Pompeo, Secretary of State:
“The United Nations Security Council is charged with the responsibility of maintaining international peace and security. It failed today to uphold its fundamental mission set. It rejected a reasonable resolution to extend the 13-year old arms embargo on Iran and paved the way for the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism to buy and sell conventional weapons without specific UN restrictions in place for the first time in over a decade. The Security Council’s failure to act decisively in defense of international peace and security is inexcusable.”
https://www.state.gov/on-the-security-councils-failure-to-hold-iran-accountable
3 years ago
Reply to
DemocracyRules
Yeah, at first I thought this was fabulously stupid of the UN Security Council. But these are snaky diplomats, and they think in snaky ways:
First, snap-back will probably work, and Pompeo is planning to do that next week. And since snapping back to the onerous sanctions of 2014 is even harder on Iran, that will probably turn out well. Trump / Pompeo can force the snap-back to work, in spite of attempted vetoes. They can veto the veto.
Second, even the UK and France abstained in the vote, and we know they don’t want nukes from Iran hitting them. They will soon be within range. The British guy said it was a strategic abstention, because China / Russia would have vetoed it anyway. So why fight over nothing?
Third, the real hard liners who want Iran to be shut down would WANT the snap-back, because it’s tougher.
Fourth, the USA has until October to get this done, and if this vote doesn’t work, then other members can raise the vote later.
3 years ago
Reply to
DemocracyRules
Yeah, at first I thought this was fabulously stupid of the UN Security Council. But these are snaky diplomats, and they think in snaky ways:
First, snap-back will probably work, and Pompeo is planning to do that next week. And since snapping back to the onerous sanctions of 2014 is even harder on Iran, that will probably turn out well. Trump / Pompeo can force the snap-back to work, in spite of attempted vetoes. They can veto the veto.
Second, even the UK and France abstained in the vote, and we know they don’t want nukes from Iran hitting them. They will soon be within range. The British guy said it was a strategic abstention, because China / Russia would have vetoed it anyway. So why fight over nothing?
Third, the real hard liners who want Iran to be shut down would WANT the snap-back, because it’s tougher.
Fourth, the USA has until October to get this done, and if this vote doesn’t work, then other members can raise the vote later.
3 years ago
Reply to
DemocracyRules
the US should get out of the UN and create a separate body with incentives
3 years ago
Reply to
SeveredSeclusiveIdiom
You can not buy allies with $$$$$$$$$$$$$. The US tried and failed!
3 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
Hear, hear! Let’s not forget among the first things the muslum vermin in Iraq did with their new found democracy was vote in the cornerstones of Shariah law: islamic blasphemy and heresy laws.
3 years ago
Reply to
DemocracyRules
Actually, I watched a documentary yesterday that claims the reason that the UN was started is to further the goal of a one world dominated by the elite Luciferian illuminati and this is now coming to fruition. The plan was hatched back in 1776 by Bavarian freemason Erick Weiskaupth.
3 years ago
Reply to
Tony Spagnoli
Well THIS attitude didn’t help:
“The aim of socialism is not only to abolish the present division of mankind into smaller states and all-national isolation, not only to bring the nations closer to each other, but also to merge them.”
– Lenin
ALL tyrants want world domination, and of the 196 UN countries, at least 75% are tyrant governments.
3 years ago
Methinks we be outnumbered. Fall back and launch nukes……………before they do!
3 years ago
3 years ago
Good: No USA $ Bailout for Lebanon
Money would just go to Hezbollah anyway.
There can be no financial bailout for Lebanon, a senior U.S. official said Saturday, calling on the country’s political leaders to heed popular calls for change, real reform and an end to endemic corruption.
David Hale, U.S. undersecretary of state for political affairs, said the U.S. and its allies will respond to “systemic reforms with sustained financial support.” He also called for a thorough and transparent investigation into the Aug. 4 blast that killed nearly 180 people and wounded thousands.
He said an FBI team is arriving this weekend to take part in the probe at the invitation of Lebanese authorities.
https://apnews.com/f9658dcc162e8b3a78ce9064e59cf680
The FBI can quickly figure what the explosives were that blew up
3 years ago
Russia and China voted no, but did not need to deploy a veto,
while the remaining members of the Council abstained.
QUIETLY cut off ALL aid to all the countries that cowardly abstained.
Why give them aid with money we have to borrow when they behave like this?
Allot of our debt was financed by China for all these useless wars.
Thank the traitorous DEMS and GOPe for that.
They are going to throw everything possible at Trump to unseat him and to return to the good old days.
3 years ago
Reply to
felix1999
I’m tired of my tax dollars going to any foreign nation!!!! The government has authorization to tax to operate our government not buy other nations off. I’m sick of it.
3 years ago
I won’t even read these stories about the UN anymore. The US needs to get out of the UN and get the UN out of the US and now!!!!
3 years ago
We should have known tis would happen.
WHY is it we STILL haven’t gotten out of and stopped financially supporting the U.N when it continues to show that it is one of our worst enemies and is practically run by the Muslims??
WHAT is Trump waiting for??
3 years ago
On the day after he takes the oath of office in 2021, DJT should :
1) Expel the UN from American soil, and
2) Round up all welfare-dependent illegal aliens and plop them down on the Mexican side of the border
It will be a GOOD day!
3 years ago
Soon the democrats will be considered a terrorist organisation in the USA (and even in Russia)
3 years ago
Just like woodies poster child – The League of Nations – failure –
3 years ago
The solution is simple.Withdraw our naval forces from the Persian Gulf.For the first time in decades we are not dependent on oil from that area.Why should we continue to guard the Gulf for so called allies who wouldn’t piss on us if we were on fire?
