On September 23, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad addressed at the Annual Session of the General Assembly of the United Nations in New York. The Iranian tyrant used this platform to once again, lash out, against the United States and Israel.
While positioning himself as a bright man, addressing the Nations on a moralizer tone on the problems the world is currently facing, pointing out their origin and solutions. “Oh great Almighty, deliver the savior of nations and put an end to the sufferings of mankind and bring forth justice, beauty and love”, said Ahmadinejad.
The Iranian president is merely acting, fooling himself. The scene is absurd and ludicrous.
Iran remains the world’s largest sponsor of terrorism. It continues to arm, train and fund terrorist groups such as Hezbollah and Hamas which have launched almost 10,000 rockets, missiles and mortars at Israel since Israel gave up all of Gaza three years ago.
Iran did not change a iota in its attitude of defiance towards the international community despite the various measures of sanctions and sets of proposals.
How come?
To be effective, means should obviously be tailored to the situation to be solved. As Iranian economy is largely dependent on foreign trade and investment, the strategy, to persuade Iran to take definitive action to stop its uranium enrichment program, is defined as a comprehensive program of economic sanctions combined with divestment programs.
Yet, Iran levied three rounds of sanctions but it did not bring the expected results that can not be seen today as effective.
The reason is simple: in fact, at the same time that world powers and the EU are looking to more forcefully strengthen sanctions against Iran for its refusal to stop producing enriched uranium, as mandated by the United Nations, many of these same countries are currently forging new business deals with the Islamic Republic.
There is a profound double standard that lies in the roots of the defined strategy, and as a matter of consequence it did not engender the expected results. Who is fooling who?
The threat, however, remains serious. A brief look to the religious beliefs Iranian Shia fundamentalists’ leaders never hide, should make the picture of their ambitions even more frightening.
Indeed, while yearning for apocalypse during which time the world is destroyed to be reborn as a Mahdi appears, they would not fear but rather embrace actions that lead toward “the end” as the ensuing war would hasten the way toward the Last Day when the Twelfth Imam, the Mahdi, would reappear to cleanse the world of evil.
This, of course, needs to be taken into account when questioning the effect of a policy of threat or even a brutal military action toward the dictatorial regime as we do not share a salutary vision of horror with Iran.
However, the international community, if willing to take its responsibility, needs to define an important line of actions which it must seriously respect on the ground without any ambiguity to prevent the world’s leading state sponsor of terrorism to acquire the world’s most dangerous technology.