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Iran Doesn't Belong in the UN or IMF
(Wall Street Journal) John Bolton, Mark Wallace and Kristen Silverberg - One step short of force that the "international community" has been unwilling to take is ostracizing Iran from international organizations, such as the UN and the International Monetary Fund (IMF). This needs to change. The UN Charter provides that membership is open to "peace-loving states which accept the obligations contained in the present Charter." Yet Iran has repeatedly called for Israel's destruction, using anti-Semitic, anti-Israel rhetoric in violation of the Genocide Convention. It has been repeatedly sanctioned by the Security Council and condemned by the International Atomic Energy Agency for violating the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Tehran regularly hosts Holocaust-denial conferences as well. Article 6 of the UN Charter explicitly provides for the expulsion of any member "which has persistently violated the Principles contained" therein. That certainly sounds like Iran. Mr. Bolton is a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. Ms. Silverberg and Mr. Wallace are the president and CEO, respectively, of United Against Nuclear Iran.