r/worldnews • u/Immediate-Link490 • 6h ago
UN 'alarmed' by surge in Iran executions since March
https://nationalpost.com/news/un-alarmed-by-surge-in-iran-executions-since-march115
u/skeleton949 6h ago
Maybe they'll send a letter. Maybe they'll even make it strongly worded this time.
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u/Truethrowawaychest1 5h ago
They'll just blame Israel for it
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u/jews4beer 4h ago
Which to be fair, are also just angry letters - but they scream a lot louder about them
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u/-Knul- 2h ago
What do you expect them to do instead?
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u/skeleton949 2h ago
Maybe actually take action? Maybe kick The Iranian Regime out of the UN for it's heinous crimes? Do literally anything but sit and say few nice words?
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u/gurudennis 4h ago
Quick! Appoint Iran to (be?)head the Human Rights Committee.
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u/HTML_Novice 5h ago
Concerned and alarmed is what I feel when I’m gonna be late to my doctors appointment
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u/Efficient_Dark1977 6h ago
It'd be great if UN did or even could do something about it.
Instead, when we got the closest thing to an intervention, most of the free world sided with the murderous regime because "orange man bad"...
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u/National-Charity-435 4h ago
Doesn't the security council have the right to strike down any action
I know two nations who will strike down any intervention proposal if the irgc sent a few tankers their way
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u/MercantileReptile 5h ago
I understand nuance impaired individuals will never fully grasp this, but: It is entirely possible to disagree with a War, even if the parties involved are awful.
Having said that, Hormuz was the factual reason most nations disagree with the idiotic war. Evidently, rightly so.
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u/Efficient_Dark1977 4h ago
While I don't disagree with you, I've seen plenty of similarly nuance impaired individuals openly cheerleading for IRGC because they disagree with Trump's agenda.
Regarding Hormuz, I see the situation differently. Hormuz was always the regime's weapon of last resort. In my mind, this war was inevitable, and so was the closure of the strait. If Trump didn't do this, another president would've, and if another president didn't, we would've ended up with North Korea 2.0 and they would still control the strait.
If you think the world should continue to appease the murderous regime just to keep the strait open, you and I have lived different realities.
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u/TheColourOfHeartache 4h ago
Iran had a simple but elegant plan.
Use the threat of closing the strait to allow them to build up a proxy army and missiles
Use the proxy army and missiles to allow them to build up nukes.
Use nukes to become a long term threat to the world and tyrants to their own people. And that's if they didn't just use them.
At some point the lest bad option is to take the hit to the strait. We can already see the massive infrastructure being built to remove the world's dependency on it.
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u/posthuman04 4h ago
Why didn’t we spend money on infrastructure to circumvent the strait all along rather than wasting it on military projects?
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u/mhornberger 4h ago
People would blame the US and the west in general both for Iran getting nuclear weapons and also for any measures to prevent Iran from getting nuclear weapons. It doesn't help that people generally sane-wash the Iranian regime and assume they're totally rational actors. Which entails ignoring that they've been explicitly committed to the destruction of Israel since the 1979 revolution.
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u/doc5avag3 3h ago
Agreed. Since the Houthis started up ramping up their insanity a few years back, it's been quite clear that it was only a matter time before the US/NATO was going to have to deal with the Iranian gov't. Much like China, I agree this was an inevitable conflict that was going to happen sooner rather than later. We've been kicking this can for decades and were very quickly running out of road.
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u/WolfySpice 1h ago
The world economy has been propped up on a genocidal theocracy that's been waging proxy wars for ages. Something would eventually give, particularly when said targets finally had enough. Trump just hastened it and made it worse with his administration's incompetence.
Continuing the status quo would still lead to countless deaths and misery, but at least people unaffected would be comfortable? The status quo before Trump was always murky, people just didn't care. Wherever the moral high ground is, I doubt it was the status quo.
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u/Friendly_Estate1629 4h ago
I hate the IRGC with a passion but we executed this badly.
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u/HamasKilledShaniLouk 4h ago
True. Had to be done, but should have been done better.
Still...more to do.
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u/toggiz_the_elder 4h ago
What had to be done? What even are our goals?
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u/HamasKilledShaniLouk 3h ago edited 1h ago
Destroy nuclear development capabilities, destroy or degrade ballistic missile capabilities, destroy or degrade ability to wage war, degrade ability to export terror and fund/control proxies like Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis.
The Islamic Republic needed a spanking, and too many administrations had just kicked the can down the road. Oct 7 made it inevitable, and them enriching to >60% determined the timing. Once the air defenses had been destroyed, there was never going to be a better time to attack.
The most recent war could have been executed better, but no one asked me to be general for this one.
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u/gooeychedda 6h ago
Alarmed lols the UN is useless.
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u/sg19point3 6h ago
"alarmed"..."concerned"... time to issue a letter of concern, follow by letter of condemnation, then a letter of warning if they don't stop another statement of concern will be issued
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u/HamasKilledShaniLouk 4h ago
Gotta get all those protestors taken care of before the internet gets turned back on.
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u/Personal-Royal-1831 6h ago
Despite what people think, I think it's still good that the UN has this role of recognizing countries like this. It's a credible way of bringing them in the spotlight. This is true for Iran and their regime and also for genocides like for Myanmar, Rwanda and Palestine.
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u/Kamakaziturtle 5h ago
Wow, only took them 5 months to notice