US refuses visa for Iran's UN envoy choice Hamid Aboutalebi

Wut, the Iranians being dickheads again ?

aww, say it isn't so.

Iran should retaliate by asking the UN to relocate to Tehran where it belongs.

And international law allows Radical Students to take the Staff and diplomats from a Sovereign Embassy and turn them into hostages.

When they pay reparations and punish those responsible for the hostage taking then, they can send this fuckstick to the UN. Otherwise, find someone who isn't tainted by 1970's Islamic Radicalism.

When aren't they dickheads?

Bart,

The only problem with that is that Iran outlawed whore houses after the Islamic Revolution. The would have to pass a special exemption to allow the UN to set up shop there.

I don't know. This is a sticky one. I understand perfectly why the Americans wouldn't want to grant entrance for an old Islamic Guard who illegally occupied the U.S. embassy. Because of the special nature of an embassy being considered to be a part of the mission country's territory, the Americans could probably arrest and charge this guy. Perhaps, they should shut up. let him in and do that very thing.

On the other hand, the U.N. should be neutral territory as well. This sort of thing has come up before and you have to wonder if it is long since past that the U.N. should move their headquarters to a more neutral, less engaged place like Switzerland, for example. Even evil scumbags have to take their U.N. seats. An awful lot of baby killers and genocidal generalissimos have sat in the U.N. over the years and we have no choice but to hold our collective noses. Remember Secretary General Kurt Waldheim? ... the same one who was an SS officer and more-or-less hid the fact? It goes right back to the beginning of the organization.

This just sets a dangerous precedent for the US denying visas to any diplomat they don't get along with. And with the amount of wars and conflicts it gets involved in, this sort of thing will just get worse. Either move the UN or suck it up.

If the "UN" as a collective doesn't like it, it can pack its bags and head somewhere else.

Antarctica?

I would vote for Kabul.

Or Islamabad.

I'm not even kidding. It's international territory. Short of some country in warmer climes giving up a chunk of its territory in perpetuity it's a good option.

Yeah it doesn't have NY's nightlife, but do we care? People will definitely take "going to the UN" as a grave and serious matter then.

I vote for Pitcairn Island.

We could admit this guy and as soon as he steps off the plane give him the same diplomatic treatment that he gave the American diplomats and have him represent Iran in the Ossining Correction Facility (Sing Sing Prison) for 444 days (the time the Iranians held the American diplomats).

Seriously though this is just one more scumbag going to the UN. It's not like he is the only one there.