Most members just chose to make speeches warning of the dire threat posed by Iran’s nuclear program or criticizing the U.N. Security Council for failing to move fast enough on its own parallel effort to impose new sanctions on the regime of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who is apparently being granted a visa to come to New York for the NPT meeting.

  By Colum Lynch Washington Post  UNITED NATIONS — Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has requested a visa to travel next week to New York to address a U.N. conference aimed at stemming the spread of nuclear weapons, a move that sets the stage for a potential confrontation with Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton over [...]

  TEHRAN (AFP) – The wife of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has accused Western countries of using the United Nations to promote illicit affairs, the official IRNA news agency reported on Wednesday. “Westerners exploit the United Nations structure to promote illicit affairs,” Azam-ol-Sadat Farahi told a conference of Muslim women thinkers on Tuesday without elaborating. [...]

 Tue, 27 Apr 2010 23:56:49 GMT US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton says Washington is holding talks with its partners to impose tough new sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program. Clinton also accused Iran of defying the international community. “Iran’s continued disregard for its international obligations underscores the [...]

The Obama administration’s strategy as it devises sanctions for Iran is to build a sticky trap — so that the harder the Iranians try to wriggle out of the sanctions, the more tightly they will be caught in the snare.

By Elahe Amani The Islamic Republic of Iran, in a provocative act, has announced its candidacy for the United Nation Human Rights Council, a UN organization based in Geneva. The candidacy of Iran comes at a time that during the last 10 months, Iranians are experiencing one of the darkest periods of human rights violations [...]

Iran is the number-one terror-sponsoring nation in the world; it has been killing Americans for years.The country is led to by mad mullahs who see nuclear weapons as a ticket to paradise. Why would one key congressman spend the last year and a half trying to derail plans to stop Iran’s nuclear program?

The House finally appointed conferees to meld the two already passed versions of the Iran sanctions bill and Congress is not waiting for the Obama administration to finish up with the UN track.

            Shirin Ebadi’s open letter to Ban Ki-moon on Iran’s membership of the UNHRC  By Dr Shirin Ebadi, Human Rights Advocate and 2003 Nobel Laureate 20 April 2010 Since the UN General Assembly must adopt a decision on the Islamic Republic of Iran’s bid for membership in the UN Human Rights [...]

Some of the documents obtained during the discovery process in the defamation lawsuit by NIAC against Hassan Daioleslam