Everyone Needs to Worry About Iran
-Richard Holbrooke, R. James Woolsey, Dennis B. Ross, & Mark D. Wallace
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad visits the United Nations in New York this week. The challenge Iran poses is very real and not a partisan matter. We share a common concern - Iran's drive to be a nuclear state. A nuclear-armed Iran would pose a direct threat to America's national security.
Facing such a threat, Americans must put aside their political differences and send a clear and united message that a nuclear armed Iran is unacceptable.
(Wall Street Journal)
Mr. Holbrooke is a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. Mr. Woolsey is a former director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Mr. Ross was a special Middle East coordinator for President Clinton. Mr. Wallace was a representative of the U.S. to the UN for management and reform.
-Richard Holbrooke, R. James Woolsey, Dennis B. Ross, & Mark D. Wallace
Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad visits the United Nations in New York this week. The challenge Iran poses is very real and not a partisan matter. We share a common concern - Iran's drive to be a nuclear state. A nuclear-armed Iran would pose a direct threat to America's national security.
Facing such a threat, Americans must put aside their political differences and send a clear and united message that a nuclear armed Iran is unacceptable.
(Wall Street Journal)
Mr. Holbrooke is a former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. Mr. Woolsey is a former director of the Central Intelligence Agency. Mr. Ross was a special Middle East coordinator for President Clinton. Mr. Wallace was a representative of the U.S. to the UN for management and reform.
UN protestors: Stop Iran -Dana Zimmerman
Thousands of demonstrators gathered in Manhattan to protest Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s participation in the United Nations General Assembly. The rally was attended by Knesset Speaker Dalia Itzik, Natan Sharnasky, and Elie Wiesel [pictured above].
In his speech, Wiesel [a] Holocaust survivor and acclaimed author said Iran’s president should be treated as a “persona non grata” worldwide. Wiesel also urged all UN delegations to leave the room the moment Ahmadinejad takes the podium.
[YNet News]
2 comments:
He's a head of state and has been accorded as much respect as his position warrants. At this point the world community needs to start shunning him and reminding him that he is a head of state that has called for the elimination of another member country of the UN. His country has flouted UN dictates on their nuclear ambitions. They have armed terrorists in Iraq. Diplomacy is not working. It is time for the UN to unite in this way as it will be hard to get any other united action with Russia being the way it is right now, and China also being difficult.
Yep. He's speaking today...let's hope he gets a chillier reception than last year.
Military intervention can only be averted if the world community presses Iran very hard. Russia owes Israel a favor [Israel kept silent as Russian tanks invaded Georgia]...hope they can cash that in.
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