| Submit your comments on this article |
| Syria-Lebanon-Iran |
| IRG General Evades Travel Ban - Visits Moscow |
| 2007-04-09 |
| h/t Lucianne An Iranian Revolutionary Guard general who is banned from traveling abroad by the U.N. Security Council visited Russia without any difficulty, Iranian state television reported on its Web site Monday. Gen. Mohammad Baqer Zolqadr, who is also deputy interior minister for security affairs, was one of 15 Iranians listed in U.N. Resolution 1747 that the Security Council approved unanimously in March to punish Iran for failing to stop enrichment of uranium — a process that can produce the material for nuclear bombs. Reads like Zol's the ayatollahs' lord high executioner. Did he bring a list? Zolqadr was quoted on the state TV Web site as saying that his six-day journey to Moscow, which ended Monday, showed "the ineffectiveness of the resolution." The resolution calls on all governments to ban visits by the 15 individuals and says that should such visits occur — presumably for exceptional circumstances — the countries should notify a U.N. committee. "Despite resolution 1747 which imposed a travel ban on some members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, including me, I traveled to Russia and no restriction was applied," the Web site quoted Zolqadr as saying. Officials at the Russian Foreign Ministry could not immediately be reached for comment. That's understandable. They were busy counting the cash. Zolqadr pointed out that Russia had voted for the U.N. restrictions on Iran. Zolqadr said he was invited by Russia's Border Guard authorities and that he discussed cooperation on border control and relief for natural disasters such as earthquakes. Memorandums of understanding were signed on both issues, Zolqadr reported. Interesting. The MMs sent a high-ranking killer on a six-day Mission To Moscow, then publically embarrass the Russkies by describing in detail how the Kremlin flagrantly disregarded UN sanctions. It reads like Tehran didn't get what it asked for; Tehran isn't going to get much else from Russia; Tehran decided to get out of it what propaganda value it could. |
| Posted by:mrp |
| #4 But the good news is that he provided completely unbiased proof that the UN is "ineffective." This is news? |
| Posted by: Redneck Jim 2007-04-09 19:54 |
| #3 But the good news is that he provided completely unbiased proof that the UN is "ineffective." |
| Posted by: USN, Ret. 2007-04-09 14:19 |
| #2 It'd be too bad if he had an accident while visiting Moscow. Say a plane crash or a tea pot contaminated with pulonium. |
| Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 2007-04-09 13:46 |
| #1 Good analysis, mrp. To quote Sir Gerald Templer, the Russkies "are so crooked that if they swallowed a nail, they'd s*it a corkscrew." They've got doubledealing down to a fine art. There may be no one on earth better at it than them. |
| Posted by: Mac 2007-04-09 09:26 |