UN Yawns, Considers Condemning Iran's Nuclear Ambitions

ABC News spins the details, courtesy of Reuters Alert.

Why do I call it spin? Take a look at ABC's headline: "UN condemns Iran amid nuclear bomb fears". Now, consider details from the actual report:

The U.N. nuclear watchdog passed a resolution on Saturday requiring that Iran be reported to the Security Council for failing to convince the international community that its nuclear program was entirely peaceful.

The International Atomic Energy Agency's (IAEA) governing board approved the resolution despite threats by Iran to begin enriching uranium and curtail IAEA inspections.

The resolution was drafted by Britain, France and Germany and backed by the United States, but it was watered down by the EU trio who had wanted Iran to be referred to the Council now.

With 22 votes for, one against and 12 abstentions, the outcome also highlighted the split between Western nations and others such as Russia, China and South Africa, which disagree with the EU three and Washington on how to deal with Iran.

Iran denies it is seeking atomic bombs and says its nuclear program is only for generating electricity. But it concealed its atomic fuel program from the IAEA for 18 years.

IAEA chief Mohamed ElBaradei said the vote was a valid decision supported by a majority but added that the international divide was worrying.

"I was deeply disturbed by the lack of any mention of arms control and disarmament at the (U.N.) summit in New York last week. And today I see also a divided board. That is not the way I should hope we would continue to proceed," he said.

The UN continues its irrelevance, while the Reasonable MSM continue their blind infatuation with internationalism. The UN hasn't condemned anything. The UN agency responsible for monitering nuclear proliferation passes a resolution with 22 affirmative and 13 non-commital/negative votes that refers Iran to the Security Council. Meanwhile, the volatile Islamic Republic, faced with internal economic and political pressures, continues to support Hezbollah and the terrorists in Iraq while undermining the Iraqi government through pro-Iranian Shia patsies like Al Sadr. Now, they're going to enrich uranium to supposedly meet their electric power requirements, when they possess the world's largest supply of Natural gas. An unstable dictatorship seeks to perpetuate its illegitimacy through extreme nationalism, religious intolerance, terrorism and now, nuclear brinksmanship. And the IAEA can muster little more than half its members to refer Iran to the SC for sanctions?

The UN has failed to live up to the aspirations of its founders. Between it's horrendous corruption and inefficience, it has become a sad characterture of what it once was meant to be. Instead of offering a forum in which nations in conflict may diplomatically work out their differences, it's become a public stage for nations to posture. The power of the moment will use the UN to cloak its own interests in the mantle of Internation common good. The USSR and China see business opportunities for an Iran going Nuclear. Not to mention a preferred supplier of a valuable natural resource. Thus, they'll likely balk any responsible position that the SC takes vis a vis Iran.

Meanwhile, the world faces the prospect of its number one Terrorist sponser having nuclear weapons at its disposal. May God have mercy on us all!