UN duplicity shows corruption of intl. order: Larijani
Iranian Majlis Speaker Ali Larijani says the double-standard approach applied by the United Nations and the International Atomic Energy Agency toward Iran’s nuclear program is a clear sign of the corruption of the international power structure.
Larijani made the remarks on July 19 in an address to the third Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) conference at the UN headquarters in Geneva.
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.
International terrorism has also been able to thrive under the UN watch, the latest example being the deadly terrorist attack in the southeastern Iranian city of Zahedan, he 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.
Source: tehrantimes.com
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