[Forbes] Claudia Rosett - People are being killed in Iran. Where is the UN? What institution could be better positioned to relieve President Obama of his worries about America standing up unilaterally for freedom in Iran? The UN is the self-styled overlord of the international community, committed in its charter to promote peace, freedom and "reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights." Iran's regime is already in gross violation of a series of UN sanctions over a nuclear program the UN Security Council deems a threat to international peace. The same regime has now loosed its security apparatus of trained thugs and snipers on Iranians who have been, in huge numbers, demanding their basic rights. Nor is the General Assembly exactly seized of the matter. The current president of the Assembly is Nicaragua's Miguel D'Escoto Brockman, a former Sandinista and current pal of the Tehran regime. In March D'Escoto made a five-day stop in Iran, his visit apparently bankrolled by the Iranian regime. The writer is a journalist-in-residence with the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.
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