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Ban Ki-moon, like Neville Chamberlin before him, is being used as a pawn by an evil regime

Ban Ki-Moon’s Shameful Visit To Tehran



United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon succumbed to pressure from Iran and its anti-American allies by deciding to attend a summit meeting in Tehran later this week of the 120 member "Non-Aligned Movement." Iran is heralding Ban Ki-moon's visit to Tehran as proof positive of its unbowed diplomatic prowess. Israel and the United States tried to dissuade Ban Ki-moon from attending, but to no avail.
"The extraordinary effort that the Iranian leaders have put into the summit is intended to showcase Iran’s global role and offer concrete evidence that the U.S. policy of isolating Iran has failed,” said Farideh Farhi, an independent Iranian scholar at the University of Hawaii, as quoted by the New York Times. In an extraordinary display of naiveté, Ban believes that he can use his visit to persuade Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei to heed the international community's concerns about Iran's behavior in a number of key areas. The Secretary General's spokesman Martin Nesirky said that Ban expects "meaningful and fruitful discussions" during which he intends to raise directly with his hosts the issues of Iran’s nuclear program, its support for Syrian President Assad's crackdown, its own human rights violations and its repeated calls for the destruction of Israel. Ban is "fully aware of the sensitivities" of the visit, the spokesman claimed, but not going "would be a missed opportunity."

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A missed opportunity for what? Will Ban Ki-moon follow up on his report last year decrying Iran's "increased number of executions, amputations, arbitrary arrests and detentions, unfair trials, torture and ill-treatment, particularly the crackdown on opposition activists" with insistence on visiting personally with detained opposition activists while he is in Tehran? There is no indication that Ban intends to meet with opposition leaders currently under house arrest and in jail. For the umpteenth time, Ahmadinejad and Khamenei have called for the destruction of Israel. Back in February of this year, Khamenei threatened: “The Zionist regime is a cancerous tumor and it will be removed.” He made this threat during the same speech that he vowed to press on with Iran's nuclear ambitions, irrespective of any sanctions. Just a few days ago he declared: “The fake Zionist (regime) will disappear from the landscape of geography.” At the same time it was reported that a new International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) report is expected to reveal its suspicions that Iran is installing hundreds of new centrifuges at its underground enrichment facility near Qom, which are capable of enriching uranium to a level even higher than the 20 percent needed for peaceful research purposes. From that level of enrichment, it is not technically difficult to further enrich to the level needed to build nuclear bombs. Will Ban Ki-moon use his visit to Tehran to publicly insist that the Iranian regime open all of its nuclear facilities immediately to full IAEA inspection without any interference? That's hardly likely. Instead, we can expect more bromides about good faith negotiations while Iran moves ever closer to becoming a nuclear armed country. Threats may be only bluster until the party making the threats has the capability of carrying them out to deadly effect. The world learned that lesson the hard way after ignoring Adolph Hitler's threats for years. No matter what Ban Ki-moon will say in private or in public during his Tehran visit, it will not change a thing, any more than British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's visit to Berchtesgaden and Munich to meet with Hitler did anything to prevent World War II. Chamberlain thought that he could reason with Hitler and reach a mutually acceptable compromise allowing Germany to annex the portion of Czechoslovakia known as Sudetendeutsche in return for Hitler's pledge that this would be his last territorial demand in Europe. Regarding his first impression of Hitler, Chamberlain commented: "In spite of the hardness and ruthlessness I thought I saw in his face, I got the impression that here was a man who could be relied upon when he had given his word." Before leaving England for his final trip to Germany to secure what he would infamously call "peace for our time" Chamberlain declared: "When I was a little boy, I used to repeat, 'If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try again.' That's what I am doing." Winston Churchill, who succeeded Chamberlain, saw right through Hitler's duplicity all along, but was not listened to until it was too late. He said: “Poor Neville Chamberlain believed he could trust Hitler. He was wrong.” The parallels between Hitler and the leaders of the current Iranian regime are too many to disregard. They are pathological liars driven by hatred and a megalomaniac belief in the righteousness of their cause no matter how many innocent lives are lost in the process. Yet Ban appears to believe that he can trust the word of Ahmadinejad and Khamenei if they somehow were to positively respond to his entreaties. He is as wrong as Chamberlain was. Hitler described the Jews as viruses infecting the health and purity of the supremacist German nation. The only solution, Hitler believed, was to remove them from the face of the earth. Ayatollah Khamenei used a similar analogy in describing the Jewish state of Israel as a "tumor" that must be removed in order to advance the supremacist Islamic ummah. “I believe today that I am acting in the sense of the Almighty Creator," said Hitler in 1936. "By warding off the Jews I am fighting for the Lord’s work.” Iranian President Ahmadinejad declared that Iran's Islamic revolution’s "main mission is to pave the way for the reappearance of the 12th Imam, the Mahdi." The Supreme Leader Khamenei fancies himself as the deputy on earth of the 12th Imam, whom he has claimed to have met. The 12th Imam can only come out of hiding and create a safe, just world under Islamic rule after chaos has first engulfed the world and the Jewish state is destroyed. Once Iran has nuclear arms, it will be in a position to ignite the war and ensuing chaos that are precisely what its leaders want to hasten the arrival of the 12th Imam. "Iran practices international terrorism, subjugates women, persecutes minorities, rapes dissidents, rigs elections, denies the Holocaust, and disregards UN resolutions to halt its illegal nuclear weapons program. Mr. Ban’s visit wrongly hands legitimacy and propaganda points to the forces of repression in Tehran, and their chief ally in Damascus,” said Hillel Neuer, executive director of UN Watch, an independent human rights organization. In sum, Ban Ki-moon, like Neville Chamberlin before him, is being used as a pawn by an evil regime.


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Joseph A. Klein, CFP United Nations Columnist -- Bio and Archives

Joseph A. Klein is the author of Global Deception: The UN’s Stealth Assault on America’s Freedom.


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