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Iran, the UN's New Authority on Nuclear Disarmament
(Forbes) Claudia Rosett - On Sept. 26, Iran's President Hassan Rouhani addressed the UN's first ever High Level Meeting of the General Assembly on Nuclear Disarmament, which showcased Iran not as a terror-sponsoring UN-sanctioned nuclear-proliferating regime, but as an authority on ridding the world of nuclear weapons. The Non-Aligned Movement, which includes 119 of the UN's 193 member states and which initiated the meeting, is currently chaired by Iran. In other words, this UN nuclear conclave, presenting Iran not as a proliferator but as a patron of nuclear disarmament, was choreographed by Iran itself. Iran is running for the post of rapporteur for the General Assembly's main committee on Disarmament and International Security. Thanks to UN backroom politics, Iran is the only candidate. That's how it works at the UN. The U.S. pays the bills, Iran plays the system, and the clock ticks toward the Iranian bomb. The writer is journalist-in-residence with the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.