TEHRAN (Iran News) – It seems governments in the world are suffering from double standard policy disease and their reactions to the similar events are totally different and biased and this is something which hurts the nations and make them lose their hopes and trusts on the performance and tasks of the international bodies.
While representatives of countries in the United Nations were focused on accusing Russia for its military operation in Ukraine and condemning Russian move, on Monday in a contradictory move they imposed embargo on Yemeni group Houthi who is fighting for the independence of Yemen and this revealed the double standard policy of some countries regarding sovereignty of the countries.
On Monday, the 15-member Council voted in favor of expanding a targeted UN arms embargo on several leaders of the Houthi Ansarullah movement to the entire group.
The movement has taken charge of running Yemen since 2015, when the country’s former Western- and Saudi-allied government fled amid a political crisis refusing to stay behind and negotiate a solution.
A Saudi-led coalition featuring many of Riyadh’s allies then invaded Yemen to reinstate the officials.
The war, which has been enjoying almost uninterrupted arms, logistical, and political support from the United States, has killed hundreds of thousands of Yemenis, and turned Yemen into the scene of the world’s worst humanitarian crisis.
Iran was the only country which denounced the United Nations Security Council’s recent extension of an arms embargo against Yemen’s popular Houthi resistance movement, which has been defending the country against a Saudi-led war since 2015.
The resolution “bears negative repercussions for the path towards peace,” Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh said on Tuesday.
The resolution strongly condemned counterattacks by Yemeni fighters, including those on Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates — Riyadh’s main ally in the war coalition — and demanded immediate cessation of the reprisal.
The resolution, Khatibzadeh added, has been adopted in line with “the political considerations and lobbying of members of the aggressor coalition.”
It, therefore, runs counter to the efforts that are being spent to revive the political process by further distancing the positions of the parties to the conflict, noted the official.
Khatibzadeh slammed the Security Council for having “distanced itself from its inherent duties” regarding Yemen since the onset of the Saudi-led war and turning a blind eye to the crimes committed by the aggressors.
This, he added, had contributed to “systematic and serious violations of the international humanitarian laws, massacre of civilians, extensive destruction of civilian infrastructure, and illegal embargo of [Yemen’s] ports and airports,” amid international silence.
Such an approach further complicates the prospect of achieving a “fair” and “lasting” peace, Khatibzadeh added.
This resolution and embargo is exactly the opposite of the UN claims of defending rights and sovereignty of the nations while everybody sees this claim being observed regarding the Ukraine crisis. Nowadays the UN is busy with taking actions against Russia while it ignores rights of countries like Yemen.
One should ask the UN what the difference is between Ukraine and Yemen that one gets full support and at the same time Yemen is punished. What is the sin of Yemenis to be punished? Is defending sovereignty is a sin then why the UN does not punish Ukraine?
This kind of double standard approach to the international events makes the nations lose their hopes and trusts to the international bodies which are fully under the control of the Westerners and big powers.
It is strange countries like Russia and China have also voted for embargo of the Yemenis while they are themselves under attacks of the Westerners.
The Islamic Republic of Iran once again proved that it is the only country that can be trusted by allies, and its friends will benefit from the friendship with Tehran. Tehran has shown that it never sells its allies for the sake of its benefits and for this reason its allies stick to their anti-arrogant stance.
The UN and international bodies which are nowadays busy with imposing sanctions and condemnation on Russia for the Ukraine crisis are better to act fairly and put the biased stance aside and defend the rights of nations like Palestinians, Yemenis and Afghanistanis who are suffering from the unilateral actions of the West and even the international bodies. The more this condition continues, the more the UN turns into a useless body for resolving global disputes.
