Wednesday, April 11, 2007
A Disarming Election: Iran and Syria lead the U.N. Disarmament Commission   Anne Bayefsky
On April 9, 2007 there was a United Nations believe-it-or-not moment extraordinaire. At the same time that Iran's President Ahmadinejad declared his country was now capable of industrial-scale uranium enrichment, the U.N. reelected Iran as a vice chairman of the U.N. Disarmament Commission.

Wednesday, April 04, 2007
Groveling at the United Nations   Anne Bayefsky
The real surprise about Iran's latest affront to civilized behavior – the hostage-taking of British sailors and marines – is that there should be any surprise at all. For years Iran has received a consistent message from the global gurus at the United Nations: nobody is prepared to stop you. Groveling is the skill democratic states have honed at the UN when confronted with naked aggression and the violation of every right and freedom they supposedly hold dear.