The UN Covers for Iran

If anything, it has gotten in the way by trying to whitewash the Iranian regime’s abysmal record of human rights abuses and failing to endorse defensive measures to reopen the Strait of Hormuz;

Joseph A. Klein, CFP United Nations Columnist ——Bio and Archives--April 20, 2026

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The United Nations has continued its dismal record of providing cover for the barbaric Islamist Iranian regime. This time it was the UN’s 54-nation Economic and Social Council’s turn. Ignoring the regime’s recent massacres of many thousands of its own unarmed citizens, it nominated the regime to serve on a UN committee that will be addressing human rights, gender equality, and terrorism prevention. Canada, France, Spain, Norway, the Netherlands, Australia, and the United Kingdom went along with this travesty. Only the United States objected.

A rubber stamp vote by the General Assembly endorsing Iran’s nomination to the committee is expected to take place in November

Ambassador Dan Negrea, the U.S. Representative to the UN Economic and Social Council, said, “the United States disassociates from consensus on the nomination of Iran to the Committee on Program and Coordination. The regime threatens its neighbors and has, for decades, infringed on the Iranian people’s ability to exercise their basic human rights.”

A rubber stamp vote by the........

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