Making a Mockery of UN Nuclear Vigilance

"Electing Iran to the committee, just days after its non-compliance was referred to the United Nations Security Council, would be beyond shameful and an embarrassment to the credibility of this body."

"[The decision represents] an affront [to the International Atomic Energy Agency and its critical screening work]." 

U.S. Ambassador Preston Wells Griffith III 

 

"[This objection by Washington is a] childish type of behaviour."

"Nuclear science, technology, expertise and industry have taken deep roots in the country and cannot be eliminated through military actions or assassinations."

"Iran will not surrender."

Behrouz Kamalvandi, deputy head, Atomic Energy Organization of Iran 

Diplomats attend the Board of Governor’s Meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) at the agency's headquarters in Vienna, Austria on September 14, 2026. (Photo by AFP)

 

As insane as it seems to anyone conscientiously following the news in the Middle East, the Islamic Republic of Iran which should rightfully be viewed as a pariah of a nation, dedicated to establishing itself as an  unparalleled power in the Middle East while posing a threat to the greater world order with its stealth infiltration in tandem with that of the Muslim Brotherhood in Western democratic nations with a goal to undermining the values inherent in free and civil society to attain a position of theistic control through jihad by both diplomatic and violent means, has been favoured with a seat on a board overseeing the work of the International Atomic Energy Agency.

 

This stunning turn of events staggers belief in the function of the United Nations, already under suspicion over its focus and support of the many facets of autocracy within its membership and its entanglement with coercive, exploitive states that persecute their own citizens. Iran is one of those most egregious of states, a theocracy that strangles internal dissent to its restrictive domination of peoples' lives. Its determination to develop nuclear weapons, allied with its technological advances in ballistic missile delivery systems and its formation of, training and financing of terrorist groups make it a dire threat to civilized society.

 

Yet, thanks to the cohesion of Muslim groups and the lobbying efforts of the 57-member Organization of Islamic Cooperation, alongside the Arab League -- a country whose minority Shiite brand of Islam with its  goal of supremacy over the majority Sunni nations neighbouring it, many of which, in the Persian Gulf, were treated to barrages of missiles and military drones in Iran's conflict with the United States -- supported Iran's candidacy for the position, against the efforts of the United States to deny it that status.

 

Key issues such as nuclear safety and security, concerning the International Atomic Energy Agency, and its spurned efforts by Iran to continue making routine checks at Iranian nuclear sites, leaving it virtually deadlocked, provided the backdrop to its general conference. On Tuesday, Tehran, with support from the very Persian Gulf neighbours which had been the recipients of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards' firing of missiles and drones, helped Iran succeed in claiming a seat on the IAEA committee.

 

Intel Brief: Iran War Solution Nowhere in Sight as U.S. and Iran Remain Entrenched  AP Photo

 

In a secret ballot, 44 countries supported Iran's nomination, as opposed to 35 voting to deny Iran that seat, while 42 nations abstained from the vote. Iran is the only non-Arab (it is Aryan) Muslim state in the Middle East, surrounded by Arab nations and one tiny Jewish nation. What they have in common excluding Israel, is Islamic religious devotion, the sectarian divide aside. Yet despite the threat that Iran poses to its neighbours, having sent thousands of missiles and drones into their territory up to a month earlier, the religious ties that bind won the day for Iran.

 

Iran, in fact, boosted by its Islamic bedfellows, has been appointed to a number of UN-body groups, one dedicated to the protection of  women's rights among them in a wildly inappropriate match. Earlier Iran had been appointed by its fellow Middle Eastern neighbours to the organizing body of the conference itself. In the meanwhile, a country that refuses entry to the very body it now sits on a board for, making the entire exercise one of bemusing sanctimony, leaves the International Atomic Energy Agency unable to fulfill its mandate.

 

The work of the IAEA has been roadblocked in the single country in the world whose secretive, illegal, and dangerous nuclear work poses a direct threat to humanity. Iran wants to possess nuclear weaponry, as a theocracy that believes in the return of the Hidden Mahdi, whose reappearance will mean the end of humanity, when only the faithful in Islam will rise to Paradise, while all others descend to a place of eternal agony as punishment for denying Islam. Their logic is to create conditions of civilizational dysfunction so severe it will hasten the reappearance of a religious symbol of total world destruction. 

 

This shows Iran's nuclear enrichment facility in Natanz, Iran, on April, 9, 2007. (AP Photo/Hasan Sarbakhshian, File)

 

Rewarding Terrorism

"According to a May poll by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research, half of Palestinians living in the West Bank and Gaza support Hamas's decision to launch the October 7 massacre."

"Asked who they'd support in a hypothetical election, a plurality [32 percent]said they would cast a ballot for Hamas."

"This shouldn't come as a surprise. It's well known that Palestinian schools and institutions indoctrinate their youth to hate Jews [something UNRWA, which Canada continues to fund, has played a large part in]. Any attempt at recognizing a Palestinian state should acknowledge this and include a plan for deradicalization, which Carney has not put forward."

"On October 7, Palestinian terrorists murdered 1,200 people, including at least seven Canadians. Instead of treating it as our fight -- as we did after 24 Canadians were killed on 9/11 and after ISIS began terrorizing the Middle East -- our leaders seemed intent to blame the victims and continually pressure Israel to end what clearly started as a war of self-defence."

"Now, Carney is rewarding the terrorists, by recognizing a state that has no basis in reality. Geopolitically, it is rather meaningless. But it will certainly embolden those who erroneously paint Israel as an evil occupying power, and vilify Canadian Jews in the process."

National Post editorial, August 2, 2025 

Palestinian terrorists move towards the border fence with Israel from Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip on October 7.   Said Khatib/AFP/Getty Images

 

For a period of several months, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made a decision to suspend the humanitarian aid process into the Gaza Strip. To that point, Israel had permitted aid to enter Gaza in volumes substantially in excess of what might have been deemed necessary. This was a period when Israel was well aware that some 85 percent of the aid was being intercepted and looted. These are data from the United Nations itself, an acknowledgement that Hamas, along with other terror groups like Palestinian Islamic Jihad were intercepting and looting the aid convoys.

 

The warehouses belonging to Hamas and the others served as depots to hoard, then resell the aid to Palestinian civilians through open-air marketplaces at extortionate prices. Perhaps Israeli authorities were banking on Palestinian civilian outrage that they were being denied aid when the temporary suspension was in place, turning against Hamas in the knowledge that vast resources of food, medicine, hygiene products, and cooking fuels were in their possession, it was decided to take that route to force Hamas to surrender the purloined aid. 

 

While it's difficult to conceive of any authority deliberately withholding food from their own constituents, this is what Hamas and the other terrorists did and continue to do. Hamas is on record as denying it is their responsibility to feed and house and care for Palestinian civilians, attributing that responsibility solely to the United Nations and the international community through their humanitarian gifts to the perpetual 'victims' of Israeli 'occupation'. Undeniably, Palestinians are undergoing a crisis of monumental proportions, gifted to them by their terrorist overseers. The purpose ... to put pressure on the international community to act.

 

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And the international community has acted -- by condemning Israel for the situation. Just as Hamas has divorced itself of responsibility to the community they represent, the international community concurs by seeing Israel as the source of Palestinian misery. The international media is complacently fortifying Hamas claims, giving complete credence to all the terrorist group's accusations against Israel as the aggressor, committing Palestinians to starvation, with a view to genocidal intent. There is complicity throughout legacy media in the use of Palestinian and Hamas reporting of unverifiable claims against Israel motivated by deeply ingrained antisemitism.

 

When the humanitarian aid convoys reach the Gaza entrance points, Israeli security inspects them to ensure no weapons or prohibited items of any kind are hidden among the food, medicine, blanket supplies. Once into the Gaza side, UN and international aid trucks are tasked with retrieving and distributing the supplies. This is where Hamas armed thugs wait to ambush the trucks to steal what they want of the aid, if they don't entirely hijack the entire load. Gaza is an actively dangerous war zone, one where Palestinian terrorists have forcefully embedded themselves within the civilian population.

 

And this past week Canada's prime minister followed the lead of France's Emmanuel Macron and Britain's Keir Starmer to announce their intention to formally recognize a 'Palestinian State' in September at the United Nations. In the interests of following through, Canada's PM Mark Carney spoke by telephone with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas where Carney outlined Canada's requirements for that recognition. To which, ostensibly, Abbas agreed to the terms, including free and fair elections, reformation of the West Bank and Gaza, and that Hamas not be permitted in any leadership position, as well as surrendering its arms.

 

Hamas is already on record for adamantly refusing to disarm. Mahmoud Abbas has scheduled elections that he has simply cancelled, after his own four-year election term that has extended to 20 years. The Palestinian population has been thoroughly indoctrinated from childhood to adulthood, in music, poetry, television shows, and school curricula, to hate Jews and accuse Israel of planning to kill all Palestinians; add that to the Palestinian Authority's sacred duty to reward the martyrdom achieved by killing Jews by naming public thoroughfares after the 'heroes' and funding awards to the families of Palestinians imprisoned for violent acts and murders against Jews, and you have  an entire culture in dire need of a prolonged refreshment course in civilizational mores.

 

Hamas terrorists carrying clubs and firearms secure humanitarian aid trucks in the northern Gaza area of Jabaliya on June 25, 2025.   (photo credit: TPS-IL)

 

Lionizing Francesca Albanese

"Israel is responsible for one of the cruellest genocides in modern history."

"Colonial endeavours and associated genocides have historically been driven and enabled by the corporate sector."

"Commercial interests have contributed to the dispossession of Indigenous people of their lands -- a mode of domination known as 'colonial racial capitalism'."

"This is a political economy that was always eliminatory and has turned into genocidal mode."

"This is a necessary step to end the genocide and dismantle the global system that has allowed it." 

Francesca Albanese, United Nations special rapporteur for the Palestinian territories 

 

"[Her] biased and malicious activities [have long made her unfit for service as a special rapporteur with the United Nations]."

"[Albanese has been busy] writing threatening letters to dozens of entities worldwide, including major American companies across finance, technology, defence, energy, and hospitality, making extreme and unfounded accusations and recommending the ICC [International Criminal Court] pursue investigations and prosecutions of these companies and their executives."

"We will not tolerate these campaigns of political and economic warfare, which threaten our national interests and sovereignty."

"Albanese has spewed  unabashed antisemitism, expressed support for terrorism, and open contempt for the United States, Israel, and the West." 

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio 

Francesca Albanese meets with NDP member Salma Zahid  Photo: X

 

Francesca Albanese's full-blown Critical Race Theory embrace in lock-step with her vile inbred brand of antisemitism pretty well sums up and exemplifies both behind-the-scenes and the upfront stand of the United Nations and its body of member-states weighed heavily in favour of the agenda of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, in concert with the non-aligned bloc of nations who unfailingly vote for any move to censure Israel within the general assembly of the international group. Her outright reviling of the State of Israel, demonizing it at every opportunity lays bare the level of Jew-hate that has become ever more blatant and demeaning of civilized societies.

 

The provocations that spew from the mouth of this rapporteur are heard to great acclaim in the UN's general body, despite that as a global union purportedly in support of universal peace and harmony, in favour of human rights and respect for sovereignty of all its member-states, can countenance and approve of one tiny country re-established on its own historical ancestral territory as a democratic, inclusive nation tolerant of other religions and ethnic groups with full citizenship in the country yet can be vilified and sanctioned repeatedly while dictatorial regimes that oppress their citizens and threaten their neighbours are never sanctioned for their rejection of human rights.

 

Ms. Albanese issued a report in July: Forever-Occupation, genocide, and profit. Evidently one too many irritants for the Trump government in Washington, which has now sanctioned her. Her demand for "accountability for corporate entities and their executives at both the domestic and international levels" holds capitalism to account for the war being waged in Gaza by Israel against Hamas following the October 7, 2023 mass invasion of southern Israel by Palestinian terrorists on a vicious rampage of organized rape and savagery that resulted in the death of 1,200 people, the abduction into Gaza as hostages of another 250 Israeli children, women, elderly and foreign farm workers.

 

Alhough Albanese cited genocide no fewer than 59 instances in her report, mention of Palestinian terrorist groups like Hamas, Hezbollah, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Fatah, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine merited no mention whatever, much less the role they have played in conducting countless suicide attacks against Israelis, mounting organized Intifadas, threatening Israel's extermination and in the process ensuring that peace could never be achieved between the Jewish state and its near neighbours who foment demonizing propaganda to convince sympathetic Western observers of Palestinian victimhood.

 

The popular myth that Palestinians want a 'state of their own', and that once granted that state all would be well, has been dashed time and again when Palestinian leaders have outright refused conciliatory offers from Israel that would establish a Palestinian state in exchange for recognition of Israel's right to exist. What the Palestinians do want is the erasure of Israel and the entire region -- Israel, Gaza and the West Bank to be handed to the Palestinians 'from the river to the sea'. And until that occurs Palestinians have pledged to continue their violent campaigns against peace with Israel.

 

Although the Albanese report refers continually to Post-October 2023, no mention whatever is made of October 7, 2023, that infamous date of Palestinian terrorists flooding into Israel on their mission of planned-and-executed mass sadistic cruelty. Instead she continues to link Israel with Fascist Germany, the perpetrators of the WWII Holocaust with its campaign to murder all of Europe's Jewish population, and which succeeded to the degree that six-million Jewish children, women and men of all ages died in the most gruesome circumstances of a state-organized death machine.

 

As for the United Nations' code of conduct for special rapporteurs -- that they uphold the highest standards of "probity, impartiality equity, honesty and good faith" -- it obviously was never meant to apply to its views and conduct with respect to Israel alone of all the UN's 193 member-nations. Despite -- or perhaps because of -- Francesca Albanese's shameful conduct, the United Nations saw nothing amiss in re-appointing her to a second three-year term as special rapporteur. 

 

She certainly has her supporters who wholeheartedly agree with all the sinister motivations and actions she attributes to Israel. Those whose sympathies lie strictly with solidarity with the Palestinians, who portray themselves as victims, forcefully exiled from their traditional heritage land, which they just happened to migrate to in the last century in a search for prospects for prosperity than what would accrue to them in Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq and Iran. And where they declared themselves not an assortment of Arabs from the outer region, but 'Palestinians' when that designation was used during the Roman era to denote the Jewish population.

 

Her supporters in Ireland, Italy and in Canada -- through the auspices of Canada's New Democratic Party -- have nominated Albanese for the Nobel Peace Prize, lauding her commitment to peace and freedom as pertains Palestinians, pointedly excluding Jews. And a Change.org petition has been announced to gather signatures for her Nobel prize nomination. All stops out to achieve recognition for her noble work and the reward it obviously merits.

 

 

 

"As a former UN official, as the Special Envoy for Preserving Holocaust Remembrance and Combatting Antisemitism, and as a Canadian, I am horrified to see a United Nations Special Rapporteur, Francesca Albanese, engage in Holocaust distortion and inversion."

Deborah Lyons, Canadian Special Envoy for Preserving Holocaust Remembrance and Combatting Antisemitism 

 

"Francesca Albanese, the UN special rapporteur for the West Bank and Gaza, is the perfect recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize."

"It is time to recognise her work as the UN special rapporteur for the West Bank and Gaza, and her tremendous and courageous work to highlight the destruction of Gaza by Israel. At a time when politicians in Europe and America are failing to step up to the plate for peace, Albanese continues to work in a hostile international environment to bring an end to the war in Gaza, to bring about a lasting peace and to save lives in Palestine."

"Albanese stands as a counterweight to the hypocrisy of politicians–especially in Europe and the United States–from whom one would expect efforts to end the carnage in Gaza and the West Bank, rather than the prevailing support, tolerance, or wilful ignorance of Israeli war crimes."

Labour’s MEP for Dublin Aodhán Ó Ríordáin nominates Francesca Albanese for the Nobel Peace Prize with S&D colleagues

Haiti "the State has Completely Collapsed"

"Every Haitian thinks that we are being abandoned by the whole world."

"If I was in a foreign country and I believed at any moment my life could be at risk, I would leave too."

"[But] what about the ones who can't leave?"

Dr. Wesner Junior Jacotin, Haitian physician

"Those who are here to stop the mess are running away from it."

"Leaving a capital in total anarchy is an act of cowardice."

Reginald Delva, former Haitian minister of the interior

Charred vehicles in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, on March 9, 2024. The U.S. Embassy in Haiti is evacuating some of its personnel from the nation's capital as rampant gang violence intensifies. CLARENS SIFFROY/AFP/Getty Images

Haiti, the impoverished, crime-ridden, woebegotten half of the island of Hispaniola that it shares with the Dominican Republic, is in a chaotic mess of immense proportions, a total breakdown of civilized mores, with roaming masses of Haitian criminals assaulting all the arms of government, including the police and the military, with free reign to spread terror among the population, where they rape, and loot, destroy and murder at will. 

Echoes of the dictatorship-rule in the 1950/60s of Papa Doc Duvalier and his dreaded Tontons Marcoutes acting on behalf of the Duvalier reign, collecting 'taxes' from residents, similarly threatening, looting, raping and murdering. The Duvalier reign in  Haiti had the tacit approval of the United States when Haiti became a getaway for Americans seeking a holiday spot with no rules of civilized conduct.

At Duvalier's death, his son, Baby Doc Duvalier exercised a stint at governing the  ungovernable nation  of blacks whose heritage on the island stemmed from their status as enslaved black Africans set down on Hispaniola when the original indigenous population was decimated by diseases brought by the presence of western European colonizers like France and Britain, who established plantations and used enslaved Africans in slave labour. 

The two countries on the island couldn't be further apart in their fortunes and their social, cultural, historic and economic outcomes, Haiti is a pathetic failure of a country, while its neighbour enjoys a far superior state of civil engagement; the contrast between a successful nation and one that is a perennially ungovernable state whose people live in primitive conditions of fear of the criminal class which their authorities are incapable of controlling.

 

A resident carries tires to be added to a burning barricade to deter gang members from entering his neighbourhood, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Tuesday, November 19   [Odelyn Joseph/AP]

 

As conditions in the island nation steadily descended from bad to horrible, United Nations personnel in the capital Port-au-Prince were being evacuated for safety's sake. Embassies and international aid groups including Doctors Without Borders operating a few still-functioning hospitals have been forced to suspend operations, given gangs storming into greater areas of the capital.

 

Most recently the UN Security Council debated whether to begin an official peacekeeping mission with its background of failed interventions in the Caribbean nation. After the earthquake and tsunami of 2010 that devastated Haiti, UN troops had arrived to aid in maintaining calm and helping in reconstruction, but they also engaged in sexual exploitation, and their presence led to an outbreak of cholera from unsanitary practises contaminating water systems.

 

Despite which, the population and government officials were prepared in their desperation to welcome UN soldiers returning, but it was not to be, when both Russia and China used their veto power, arguing that there is no peace to keep, in Haiti. The United Nations had some 300 employees in 18 different agencies engaged in Haiti. Dozens assigned to the UN Integrated Office in Haiti, a political mission known by the acronym of BINUH, have been evacuated.

 

 

Petionville, a Port-au-Prince neighbourhood where aid groups and their employees are based were raided by gangs and although police and local residents fought back and killed many, the gangs have not been put out of commission. At least 220 people were killed due to a dozen attacks from November 11 to 19. The UN migration agency revealed that 41,000 people had fled their homes in November.

The Kenyan police staffed international force sent to Haiti in June has faced heavily armed gangs. The UN feeds 40,000 people daily. According to Pierre Esperance in Port-au-Prince, only senor staff remained at most embassies. "Everyone is gone -- Canada, Japan, the U.S. The state has completely collapsed."

 

Residents question a person who is not from the neighbourhood after an attempted overnight attack by gangs on the affluent hillside suburb Petion-Ville sparked a violent civilian response, in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, November 19, 2024. REUTERS/Ralph Tedy Erol/File