Jews and Politics: UN Resolution on Iran Is Predictably Soft and Pathetically Meaningless

Inside the International Atomic Energy Agency headquarters in Vienna, diplomats from around the world tried to formulate a resolution to repudiate Iran for its suspicious nuclear intentions. Sitting around a long conference table in a spacious room were the leading diplomats of the west, including the US, Britain, France, Germany, and the diplomats of Russia and China.

The meeting was held in response to a report released the other week by the IAEA, indicating that they had gathered clear proof that Iran’s nuclear program was not designed to produce energy for civilian use, as they claim, but rather to build a nuclear weapon.

Yukiya Amano, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency, addressed the gathering: “Throughout the past three years, we have obtained additional information which gives us a fuller picture of Iran’s nuclear program and increases our concerns about possible military dimensions,” he said.

“The information indicates that Iran has carried out activities relevant to the development of a nuclear explosive device,” Mr. Amano said.

“I ask Iran to engage substantively” with the I.A.E.A. “without delay and provide the requested clarifications regarding possible military dimensions to its nuclear program.”

Now with such clear evidence, you would expect it to be a slam dunk that the international community would issue a strong and powerful condemnation together with a new round of crippling sanctions. But this is the UN, and nothing is ever simple at the UN.

So the diplomats spent hours together, passing around a pen and paper and quarreling over the weakest possible wording for the resolution. In the end Russia outdid China, turning the resolution into one big diplomatic joke that’s certain to make the Iranians erupt into laughter.

According to the AP, the resolution expressed “serious concern that Iran continues to defy the requirements and obligations contained in the relevant IAEA Board of Governors and UN Security Council Resolutions.” It also spoke of “deep and increasing concern about the unresolved issues regarding the Iranian nuclear program, including those which need to be clarified to exclude the existence of possible military dimensions.”

Maybe we should just put Iran in time-out until they start behaving. Or threaten to take away their dessert until they promise to be our friends. I mean are you kidding me!? This is what the UN expects to force Iran to abandon its uranium enrichment program? No wonder the Israelis are preparing for a military strike to end this problem for once and for all.