AFP, Tehran, June 13, 2010  – The UN Security Council has become an ’oppressive tool’ of world powers that is nearing its end, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahamdinejad charged on Sunday in an interview on state television.
’The (UN) Security Council is a tool in the hands of the big powers,’ Ahamdinejad said.
’World powers use it as an oppressive tool … The way they (world powers) acted (in imposing sanctions on Iran) shows the end of the Security Council,’ he said.
In a fresh outburst against the Security Council for imposing a new round of sanctions on Iran, the hardliner said the UN body had failed to resolve any key world issues, ’be it Iraq … or Afghanistan.’
’When flotillas carrying aid get attacked in international waters, the council does not react, but at the same time it passes a resolution against us,’ he said, referring to Israel’s commando raid on aid ships headed for Gaza.
The May 31 raid left nine pro-Palestinian activists dead and sparked widespread outrage.
On Wednesday, the Security Council imposed a fourth set of sanctions against Iran over its controversial nuclear programme, which world powers suspect masks an atomic drive, a charge denied by Tehran.