Does she think we are idiots? Does Denmark’s foreign policy establishment? I am a Danish citizen, and this fraudulent speech with a gross lie through omission is morally and politically unacceptable.
H. E. Ambassador, Christina Markus Lassen, spoke at the UN Security Council’s urgent meeting caused by Israel’s attack on Iran. Read her short – shocking – speech here.
She is an experienced Danish diplomat, partly educated in the US (of course), and has been her country’s ambassador to Syria, where she collaborated with the US (the famous Mr Ford!), France, and the UK to shape a “Western approach” – to changing the government of Bashar al-Assad, one must assume.
Perversely as hard to believe, she does not mention that Israel has attacked Iran!
No, she starts with the US/Israeli mantra – they are both major nuclear powers, of course – that Iran shall never be allowed to have nuclear weapons: “Iran must never be allowed to acquire a nuclear weapon. For years, Iran has continued to undertake activities in blatant violation of the JCPOA.”
Here she conveniently tells a lie; first, there is no international law-based decision anywhere that Iran shall never be allowed to acquire these weapons. It’s a US and Israeli determination, nothing else. She must, therefore, omit that Israel has between 50 and 400 nukes, depending on sources and estimates, and that the UN, where she speaks, has decided decades ago that the Middle East shall be a zone free of weapons of mass destruction. More about the basic facts here.
By omission, she lies again with the reference to the JCPOA. That extremely important agreement of 2015 – a brilliant piece of diplomacy – was abrogated unilaterally by Donald Trump in 2018. He called it “horrible” and we now see what a great alternative he has up his sleeve.
Furhtermore, there exists no report that Iran broke any provisions, even though the JCPOA was not binding with a major participant having left it. On the contrary, three months ago, Trump’s national security director, Tulsi Gabbard, stated that there were no signs that Iran was aiming at getting nuclear weapons.
This ambassador of omission and misinformation continues with another blatant lie about Iran – that “these activities constitute a threat to international peace and security and a threat to the global non-proliferation regime.” Had she had the decency to even mention Israel in her speech, she would have added that Israel felt threatened and that its attack was an act of self-defence, or ‘pre-emptive.’. Have no doubt!
Anyhow, Iran – which has never attacked or occupied another state (no matter what you may think of its theocratic policies) and has no nuclear weapons (but could have acquired them 2-3 decades ago if it wanted constitutes a threat to international security and peace! In contrast, Israel, which is a nuclear state, has repeatedly attacked Iran and other countries and conducted the worst genocide since 1945 does not constitute such a threat!
The rest of her speech is blah-blah, devoid of intellectualism – the work of security and peace illiterates. Kakistocrats. I mean, when you can only urge “all parties” to show restraint and de-escalate but can’t mention the aggressor, your political capacity resembles a snowball in hell.
These distortions and turning reality upside-down are, of course, made in order to please the two exceptionalist states with lots of historical blood on their hands that I call “USrael” – at the moment the two most dangerous states and leadership on earth.
H. E. the Ambassador knows what role to play at the stage of Western reckless interventionism, militarism and criminal warfare. No respect for reality. No respect for fairness. And to hell with ethics.
She says that “Denmark’s position is clear.” Which Denmark? Would all Danish citizens feel OK with this series of fake and omissions, with the Danish UN mission’s war-mongering statements in this crystal clear case of aggression in total violation of everything the UN and international stands for – letter as well as spirit? ‘
No, so mean and so primitive are not all Danes. I for one say: Not in my name. I don’t want the terrible war Mme Christina Markus Lassen recklessly promotes in this particular speech.
It is time that we citizens are given an opportunity to elect not only national “representatives” for a parliament but also those who “represent” – or are supposed to represent us – in international forums.
Furthermore, perhaps it was a good idea that the media – if they have any independent thinking left – began to monitor what is stated in the name of Denmark and the Danish people’s name abroad. Particularly if Denmark’s diplomats at the finest organisation we have, the UN, do nothing but defile both the UN’s Charter and Denmark’s name in an attempt to promote a USraeli war that may threaten to set the whole Middle East on fire.
