But will the UN really do anything about this? From AP, with thanks to Jeffrey Imm:
VIENNA, Austria (AP) - Buoyed by growing European support, the United States lobbied the U.N. atomic watchdog agency Monday to send Iran before the U.N. Security Council for refusing to freeze work that can produce nuclear weapons.A European diplomat said Washington had revised a resolution originally drafted by France, Germany and Britain, adding an Oct. 31 deadline and toughening language meant to force Iran to dispel all suspicions it is trying to make nuclear arms in violation of treaty commitments.
The draft, summarized by the diplomat for The Associated Press, demands "complete, immediate and unrestricted access" to all sites and information requested by the International Atomic Energy Agency in its probe into Iran's nearly 2-decade-long clandestine nuclear program.
The secret work was discovered only two years ago, bringing intensifying international pressure on Iran's government to end nuclear programs that have uses in both electricity generation and the production of atomic weapons, such as uranium enrichment.
Growing European support? For Bush Strengthening the wording of a resolution against Iran? For that matter, for Bush.
Europe must be worried. 'Bout time!
But first, let's see who objects. If we get past that stage, let's next see who they want on the inspection team.
anything from the UN towards iran will be worth exactly the cost of paper and ink it is written with
We should ,this time, have ONE unexpected inspection from the UN (no pussy-footing around giving them ample time to hide things), no stupid useless "peace-talks", just a staight-forward blitz of Iran. Take out their nukes, take out the Mullahs, get another M.E Democracy in their then move on to the next islamic trash-pile (easy huh?)
For the past 30 years the U.N. has been steadily taken over by the Islamintern. Apologists for Islam, by no means all of them Muslims, defenders of the Arab Muslim world-view and promoters of its political agenda, most obviously by repackaging the relentless Jihad against Israel as merely a conflict resulting from an "occupation" (nice neutral word, that, evoking -- quite inaccurately, given Israel's legal, historic, and historic claim to the lands that came into its possession in 1967 -- goose-stepping Nazis marching, eyes right, under the Arc de Triomphe). Little in the past 37 years since 1967 has been done about any Muslim attacks on non-Muslims. Nothing was done to come to the aid of the Christians of Biafra, subject to the genocidal assaults of the Egyptian pilots on Ibo villages, and of the Muslim northerners; 1 million people died. Nothing was done, despite the efforts of Rapporteur Gaspard Biro, to stop the 20-year effort by the Arab Muslim north to kill the animist and Christian blacks of the southern Sudan. Nothing was done when Indonesia took over Christian East Timor, to which it had no claim; nothing was done to protect those Christians until 1/3 of them, or 200,000 people, were murdered -- and then it was the Australians alone who rescued them. Nothing was done, of course, about the Jihad against Israel, including attacks on schools (Ma'alot), schoolbuses, buses, airplanes, schoolgirls, the inhabitants of old-age homes in Vienna, Russian Jewish refugees coming by train to what they thought was a new life from the Soviet Union, Israeli athletes at the Olympics, Israeli diplomats in London -- no, not a peep from the U.N. except to denounce Israel.
With Edward Mortimer -- google "Edward Mortimer" along with "jihadwatch" and see what you find -- the Director of Communications at the U.N. and Kofi Annan's chief speechwriter -- as an exemplary U.N. figure, and joined by many others -- after all, just what kind of person nowadays would join the U.N.? This is no longer the U.N. that Rene Cassin had any part in founding, not the U.N. of Mrs. Roosevelt, not the U.N. at which Shirley Hazzard and Joseph Gessen (Hessen) could work. The personnel is different; the atmosphere is different; the ideals are gone; the whole thing is even worse than the League of Nations in its dying fall.
That we continue to take this most corrupt and corrupting of institutions seriously, after so much failure, when it largely protects not only war-criminals (rememeber one Kurt Waldheim?), but now that it is clearly an obstacle to the creation of a league of victims and opponents of the Jihad.
Nothing will happen seriously in the U.N. to stop Sudanese activities in Darfur or anywhere else. Nothing will happen to stop the genocidal Jihad against Israel; instead, support will be offered the invented "Palestinian people." And nothing will be done to stop the Islamic Republic of Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons, any more than Iraq was being stopped back in 1981, or for that matter, in 2003, from doing whatever it could do (not always with success, but if at first you don't succeed....), to acquire the most dangerous kinds of weapons. It took other means, and it will, as well, with Iran.
Those who still take the U.N. seriously should be asked if they think the League of Nations was right to fold its tent, when it could do nothing about Hitler in the Rhineland, nothing about the Fascists in Spain, nothing about Mussolini's invasion of Abyssinia, nothing about the Japanese invasion of Manchukuo. At a certain point, the farce has to end. That point has been reached, for sensible people who are paying attention (and in the hectic vacancy of life, it is harder to do so), with the United Nations. Only a fool nowadays would use a phrase such as "international community," which attempts to treat Syria and Iceland as the same kind of members, or Costa Rica and Saudi Arabia, as similarly situated and behaving. What nonsense. There is no "international community." There are no "united" nations. There is an organization that has been undermined from within, and now is an obstacle to the wellbeing of all those who wish to see clearly what is at stake in the world-wide Jihad, and to preserve themselves, in Europe, in America, in Russia, and in the MIddle East, from the imposition of a belief-system -- through being overrun, slowly but surely, by adherents of that belief-system -- that has left every place it has conquered intellectually impoverished, and in every other way as well. Taking the U.N. seriously is by now as absurd as, in September 1939, going to the League of Nations (or as those incurable salon-habitues, the French, liked to call it, la Societe des Natons, the "society of nations"), to ask it to please, please, please deal with Mr. Hitler -- he is behaving so badly.
Since when have U N been a force to be reckoned with!! Only thing they're good at is wasting money and talking Bull****.