August 28/12
There is no doubt that we live in an era
of global political hypocrisy par excellence. An era of deviations and
corruption where criminals preach holiness and terrorists advocate for peace
and tranquility. Why not, when the all criteria for all that
is right and wrong have been distorted and
confused. Sadly, the majority of our world rulers and politicians do not
respect the intelligence, dignity, or the knowledge of the lay citizens and
accordingly have no place or any slight calculations in their conduct.
In this context of political madness, insolence and promiscuity the so
called "Non-Aligned Movement" 16th Summit kicked off in the Iranian capital,
Tehran, on Saturday August 27/12 under the chairmanship of the Iranian
mullahs. The puzzling question that every sane person is asking, is there
any rational or truth in tagging the Iranian mullahs’ regime as a
non-aligned entity?
The irony in this humiliating drama lies in the shocking fact that 120
countries are actively participating in this controversial gathering among
which is al-Assad Syrian dictatorship, one of the most criminal, evil and
bloody regimes in the contemporary history. Who can take this summit
seriously and even imagine for a moment that these countries are going to
draw up a new peace resolution to solve the crisis in Syria or to handle
nuclear disarmament issues among many other items on the table?
Iran's Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi in his
delivering opening speech on Sunday did not waste any time to give this
bizarre summit its real identity and to plainly expose its actual Axis of
Evil agenda. He with no hesitation took the opportunity to criticize the
United Nations, arguing that the neutrality of the world organization is
compromised by the inordinate power assigned to the five permanent members
of the Security Council: Russia, China, France, the United Kingdom and the
United States. He is not happy at all, nor do the Iranian ruling mullahs
that the Free World is struggling to prevent them from owning an atomic
bomb, nor about the economic sanctions that aims to deter them from doing
so. He also called for "Creating a more democratic Security Council and for
important UN reforms"
A number of shameful contradicting disagreements surround the participants,
the first is that the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon
himself is expected to attend the six-day summit, despite protests from the
US and Israel, which both called on to the UN head to stay away from the
event. Another actual joke relates to Palestine as two leaders, President
Mahmoud Abbas and
Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh, have both declared
they received and accepted the Iranian invitation. Syria's Prime Minister
Wael Nader is most likely to represent his
country.
In actual reality, those countries who accepted to take part in this mere
theatrical summit are succumbing to Iran's expansionism schemes, its global
terrorism, its threats to all the Arab countries and Israel, its criminal
partnership with the Syrian dictatorship to kill the Syrian people, its
bloody and intimidating hegemony on Lebanon via Hezbollah, its surrogate
army, its global terrorism attacks against Israeli and numerous Western and
Arab citizens officials and institutions, its atomic endeavours that pose an
actual and very serious threat to the whole world.
While Western countries have tried to downplay Iran holding this summit,
Iranian officials are not using any cosmetics in using it as a stage to hit
out at the US, saying the holding of the 16th NAM Summit in Tehran proves
the "failure" of America's "threat and sanction" policy against the oil-rich
country. Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab and African Affairs
Hossein Amirabdollahian
said the anti-Iran policies of the US-led Western nations are doomed for
failure. Amirabdollahian described the presence
of heads of states and high ranking delegations of NAM member countries in
Tehran as important "under such critical conditions arising from
developments in the Middle East and North Africa and its coincidence with
Islamic awakening movement" in the region. "The threat and sanction policy
[of the US] has failed despite pressures exerted on Iran by the US and some
other countries," the official IRNA news agency quoted
Amirabdollahian as saying. He also said Iran's hosting of the summit
would improve its position in the international circles while the US and
European Union are facing a severe financial crisis.
Iranian leaders will be boldly using the summit for furthering their
propaganda and had already asked many participating countries to oppose all
sanctions imposed on their country. The mullahs are also strongly lobbying
to secure support for the current Syrian regime lead by the butcher,
Bashar al-Assad.
It is worth mentioning that The Non-Aligned Movement was founded in 1961, in
the middle of the Cold War, by leaders of nations seeking to abstain from
taking sides in the global conflict between the West and the Soviet Union.
The first Conference of Non-Aligned Heads of State, at which 25 countries
were represented, was convened at Belgrade in September 1961, largely
through the initiative of Yugoslavian President Tito. He had expressed
concern that an accelerating arms race might result in war between the
Soviet Union and the USA. Subsequent conferences involved ever-increasing
participation by developing countries. The 1964 Conference in Cairo, with 47
countries represented, featured widespread condemnation of Western
colonialism and the retention of foreign military installations. Thereafter,
the focus shifted away from essentially political issues, to the advocacy of
solutions to global economic and other problems.
It is ironic for the Non-Aligned Movement which started in Bandung in 1955
with senior figures such as Jamal Abdel-Nasser to turn into a movement
aligning with regimes that practice tyranny against their people and support
with all its might other regimes who practice unprecedented killing and
oppression, The proof of this lies in the protection offered by some members
of the Non-Aligned Movement to the Syrian criminal regime, against the
Syrian people's aspirations for liberation and democracy.
One cannot find any reason for those Arab leaders attending the summit
especially that the Iranian regime is their number one threat on all levels.
This is a blatant conduct of double standard and hypocrisy.
Among the participants, Bolivian President Evo
Morales, Cuban President Raul Castro, Ecuadorian President Rafael Correa,
Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi, Indian Prime
Minister Manmohan Singh, Emir of Kuwait Sabah
Al-Ahmad, Lebanese President Michel Suleiman, Sultan of Oman
Qaboos bin Said al Said, Pakistani President
Asif Ali Zardari,
Palestinian President Mahmoud
Abbas, Senegalese President
Macky Sall, Sri Lankan President
Mahinda Rajapaksa,
Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung, Azerbaijani President
Ilham Aliyev and
Turkish President Abdullah Gul are among the
high-ranking guests of the 16th NAM summit in Tehran.
In conclusion, this summit of shame, hypocrisy and camouflage will
definitely achieve one very dangerous aim. It will give the Iranian
terrorist mullahs a message simply saying that the whole world is not going
to do anything or take any practical deterrent action against their atomic,
terrorism and expansionism schemes, and accordingly they can freely continue
with these schemes.
Elias Bejjani
Canadian-Lebanese Human Rights activist, journalist and political
commentator
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