My bat senses tell me the Iranians are not happy about failing to win a non-permanent seat on the UN Security Council.
Iran says its failure to win a non-permanent seat on the UN Security Council was an “obvious injustice.”
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Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Hasan Qashqavi told reporters in Teheran on Monday that there was “no logical reason” for Japan, which has served ten times on the Council, to “monopolize” that seat.
And why do the Iranians believe they were unsuccessful (given they don’t seem to be reading too much into the three sets of Security Council sanctions over its nuclear program)?
Iran on Saturday blamed what it said was intolerance of its independent positions by the West for its failure to win a seat on the U.N. Security Council, which has imposed sanctions on Tehran over its disputed nuclear work.
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“Obviously the structure of the Security Council is such that it must be said in practice a few special countries make decisions there and impose ideas,” Iran’s U.N. ambassador, Mohammad Khazaee, told state television.
“And it is natural that these countries are disinterested in independent ideas or the entry of states that believe in the necessity of re-examining its structure,” he said.
“Anyhow, some do not have the tolerance to hear an independent voice in a structure incompatible with today’s world necessities,” he added.
New structure = one not including a certain Zionist entity.
Meanwhile, the Iranians seem to be invoking a familiar catch cry.
In its statement, Iran’s mission said it would continue to “call for change” and insist on “the need for a Security Council that is more democratic and better responding to the realities of the current era.
Where have I heard that before?
