Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi, in a statement alongside Islamist Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, dismissed the United Nations as an irrelevant and useless organization, saying it would further favor Tehran's pro-jihadist ideology. demanded “reform.”
Raisi visited Ankara to sign a package of bilateral trade and diplomatic agreements. with handrail Iran's state-run propaganda broadcaster Press TV says the United Nations has not done enough to stop Israel from defending itself against the Iranian-funded Sunni terrorist organization Hamas, and has accused Hamas of supporting Palestinian terrorism. He called it “humanity's most important issue.''
Raisi and Erdogan, an Islamic extremist who has repeatedly defended Hamas as “not a terrorist organization,” used Wednesday's meeting to condemn Israel's response to the Oct. 7 Hamas terrorist attack. did. It carried out mass murders on Israeli territory, killing an estimated 1,200 people, carrying out mass torture, mass rape, mass kidnappings, and desecration of corpses. Scholars have noted that the death toll and extent of the devastation in this incident made it the largest massacre of Jews since the Holocaust.
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Israel responded to the attack by continuing self-defense operations in Hamas' stronghold of Gaza, sparking widespread condemnation from Islamists in the region. After street parties celebrating the October 7 killing, Iran became the loudest voice opposing Israel's response. Iran provides tens of millions of dollars in funding to Hamas and the regional jihadist organization Palestinian Islamic Jihad.hamas official Said The BBC reported on the record that Iran had offered “direct support” for the October 7 attack that day.
Attending a rally in Tehran to express solidarity with the Palestinians after Hamas militants launched deadly air, land and sea attacks on Israel from the Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023 Iranian. (Majid Saidi/Getty Images)
“The United Nations has lost its effectiveness on this issue and has become a bystander,” Raisi said. I lamented on wednesday. Press TV reported that Raisi “lamented the failure to stop Israel's genocide in Gaza and called for reform of the United Nations and other international organizations.” Iran has incorrectly called Israel's counterattack a “genocide.”
“Those who claim to protect human rights and whose mission is to protect world peace and security are bystanders and are no longer effective,” Press TV quoted Raisi as saying, adding that “the Palestinian issue is “This is humanity's biggest problem,” he added. ”
“Iran's president said that international organizations have shown that the Gaza test has failed and is no longer effective,” the Press TV report continued. “The world should move towards forming new mechanisms to deal with threats to international peace and security,” he said.
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Turkey's state-run Anadolu news agency said Turkish strongmen have often called for a complete dismantling of the current UN system, although Erdogan did not similarly condemn the UN at the joint meeting. President Erdogan has long led the United Nations, spearheading efforts to get the organization to adopt an International Day against Islamophobia. motion “The world is bigger than five,” he said, calling for the abolition of the permanent membership of the United Nations Security Council.
However, Erdogan reportedly said that alongside Raisi, Said “We support the measures taken in the field of international law to prevent Israel from getting away with the war crimes committed.”
“The people of Gaza have become victims of an atrocity that is shameful in human history,” President Erdoğan declared.
Anadolu also reported other parts of Raisi's comments, including complaints about the “dysfunction” of the United Nations and calls for a “new and just world order.”
Raisi reiterated Iran's call for the Islamic world to support Hamas terrorists and impose trade and political embargoes on Israel.
two leaders signed The two countries signed 10 memoranda of understanding to strengthen transactions in trade, infrastructure and other core areas. The agreements included new media partnerships, a Framework Agreement on Rail Transport, and an agreement to expand cooperation between Turkey's National Police University and Iran's Amin Police University.
Raisi's complaints aside, the United Nations has long displayed clear anti-Israel bias, particularly towards the UN agency responsible for the “Palestinian” issue. The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), which helps Palestinian “refugees” in Gaza and the West Bank, has long been accused of employing jihadists and indoctrinating the region's children with Islamic extremist terrorist ideology. .
UNRWA officials speak openly celebrated October 7 UNRWA admitted on Friday that some of its staff took part in the wave of terrorism.
“Israeli authorities have provided UNRWA with information regarding the alleged involvement of several UNRWA personnel in the horrific attack on Israel on October 7,” UNRWA Executive Director Philippe Lazzarini said in a statement.
He continued: “I have taken the decision to immediately terminate the contracts of these personnel and to launch an investigation. Any UNRWA personnel involved in acts of terrorism will be held accountable.” .
The administration of leftist President Joe Biden responded to this admission by cutting off funding to UNRWA. The United States contributed more than $340 million to the agency in 2022.
But beyond UNRWA, other UN agencies have a long history of attacking Israel.
Rep. Chris Smith (R-N.J.) said at a hearing on anti-Semitism at the United Nations in November that the United Nations has determined that anti-Semitism, including its most egregious and violent forms, is the worst in the world. There is no doubt that it is a legitimizing presence.” Hillel Neuer, executive director of UN Watch, said at the meeting that the General Assembly unfairly condemns Israel while ignoring serial human rights violators.
“Last year's General Assembly had one resolution on Iran, one resolution on Syria, one resolution on North Korea and 15 resolutions on Israel,” he noted. “Each year, the World Health Organization's annual meeting deviates from global public health and a special discussion is held that singles out Israel.”
