Iran: UN Will Ignore Crackdown – No Jews Involved

“I mean, just look at Syria.”

Tehran, January 14 – Leaders of the Islamic republic voiced confidence today amid a continuing deadly repression of protests against the regime, according to regime sources in the capital, predicting that international bodies of governance will refrain from anything more than token acknowledgement of the violence, because those bodies could not care less when the victims are not Palestinians and the alleged perpetrators are not Jews.

Sources within elite circles of Ayatollah Khamenei’s ruling cadre disclosed Tuesday that the Supreme Leader expects little to no adverse action on the part of the United Nations, neither in the Human Rights Council nor in the Security Council, since Israel plays no direct role in the current disturbances, the latest in months of anti-government demonstrations. The recent wave of protests began after Iran air defense systems downed a civilian airliner carrying 178 passengers, believing it part of US retaliation for a missile attack in Iraq.

The sources, speaking on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisal, revealed that Khamenei and his advisers believe they will need to expend no diplomatic or political capital to avoid organized international censure. “Many countries that face the prospect of negative UN attention will run to one of the five Permanent Members of the Security Council and beg them to exercise a veto,” explained one source. “If it were, hypothetically, to become necessary, Iran could in all likelihood count on both Russia and China to do exercise the veto, given the opposition that both of those regimes have expressed to what they consider a country’s internal affairs – Hong Kong and Xinjiang come to mind off the bat. But the leadership here thinks no one will even bother to raise the issue, despite the body count, because they’re not all that interested in making an international fuss over dead people if it’s not Israel.”

“I mean, just look at Syria,” offered another insider. “Close to half a million dead in just over eight years, and not a single Security Council resolution on the horizon.  No talk of war crimes at the International Criminal Court. The Human Rights Council has been silent on this for ages. And the body count there includes thousands of Palestinians, whose suffering seems so important to everyone when Israel stands accused of causing it, but when our buddy Assad and our proxies supporting him are behind it, crickets. That’s more Palestinians than have been killed by Israel ever, I believe. I would have to agree with our leadership here: there’s very little chance they have anything to worry about from those panels.”

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