The United Nations Security Council met on Friday to debate Israel’s unprovoked attack on Iran and Tehran’s response, with the Iranian and Israeli envoys clashing.
From U.N. News: U.N. Secretary-General warn ambassadors that “we are on course to chaos” if the war widens “which could ignite a fire that no one can can control.” … The head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog, IAEA, Rafael Grossi, warned that Israeli strikes on Iranian nuclear sites had caused a “sharp degradation” in nuclear safety and security. He said the IAEA would remain in Iran and will resume inspections as soon as conditions allow, urging Tehran to reengage with the agency.
There is a possibility if the general assembly acted
What is the use of all these well-intended debates when the guilty parties continue to affront society with impunity.
Why?
That’s my reply to the title. Why watch? Is something going to happen? Is the UN going to actually make the USA and Israel obey the Charter that they agreed to in order to join the UN? Is the UN going to actually enforce its Charter by removing the constantly charter-breaking USA from its midst, and from its war and genocide powering veto-seat on the UNSC.
League of Nations 2.0 has turned out to be as useless as League of Nations 1.0. And the root cause this time appears to be that organization does not insist that members follow the rules the agreed upon. To join the UN, a nation had to adopt the UN Charter. But now, the UN lets members break the rules, but stay in the UN, while working to completely defeat all of the original high purposes of the UN. Which has doomed its original high purpose of trying to prevent the war that destroy human civilization.
When you say “the UN lets members break the rules”, who do you mean by “the UN”? The Secretariat? The UN are its member states. Its most powerful member states are the five permanent members of the Security Council. There can never be an action, whether sanctions or council-authorized military action, against any of the five because of their veto. The General Assembly could pass a resolution condemning one of the five but it cannot authorize any action against them. This is the reality of the UN.
To become informed on what Russia, China, Iran, Israel and other countries at the session have to say about the current situation. That’s a reason to watch this. This is a news site. Its purpose is to inform.
It’s all very well these UN security debates, but pretty bloody useless when you have a rogue country attacking another country. And especially that rogue country having nuclear weapons. And not being party to NPT and has not accepted IAEA safeguards on some of its principle nuclear activities. The debate is like shutting the stable door after the horse has bolted. The rogue horse is free and wild with no-one to rein him in.