Moral Rot Eats at the United Nations

The General Assembly holds a memorial service for Iran’s late president, Ebrahim Raisi, who devoted his life to terror.

AP/Frank Franklin II
Iran’s president, Ebrahim Raisi, approaches the podium to address the 78th session of the United Nations General Assembly, September 19, 2023 at New York. AP/Frank Franklin II

The United Nations reaches a nadir today, singing the praises of the late Butcher of Tehran. The General Assembly memorial service to President Raisi, who died in a helicopter crash this month alongside the Iranian foreign minister, is symptomatic of a rot that is eating up the entire UN system. Moral inversion, reverberating from Turtle Bay to Vienna, The Hague, Geneva, and back to New York is somehow taken seriously at world capitals, including our own.

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