Historic events took place in Geneva on Thursday. For the first time ever, the UN Human Rights Council held a special session dedicated to the Islamic Republic since Iran took power in 1979.
But that wasn’t all: the majority called for an independent UN mission to collect legally valid evidence of the blood trail left by the mullahs in their war against their own people.
The result is a major symbolic victory for the freedom movement and a success for the initially ridiculed German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock, who had traveled to Switzerland in a tour de force especially for this diplomatic coup.
The damage to the turban wearers is clear – and irrevocable. For parallel to their policy of assassinating and incapacitating opponents, the leadership in Tehran has always worked diligently to create the appearance of international networking and international normalcy.
With this strategy, the ayatollahs have always been able to count on accomplices. Thursday’s vote showed once again who it was: countries such as Cuba, Venezuela, Eritrea and, of course, China sided with the Iranian government.
The way the representatives of these countries argued makes you sit up and take notice. Thus, the Venezuelan got into an incendiary speech about the West’s “double standards” against the “Global South”. The colleague from Havana agreed and spoke of Western “arrogance” towards this “Global South”. The Beijing delegation applauded.
But what exactly is the “Global South”? The term has its roots somewhere vaguely in the depths of anti-colonialism, in anti-imperialist folklore and in so-called dependency theories – the idea that poverty on the fringes of the world economy has to this day been caused exclusively by Western imperialist-colonialist centers. .
For the despots of all stripes and all nations there is no better adjunct.
The term “Global South” is the yellowed Che Guevara shirt of political buzzwords, it is a phrase murderous dictatorships use as an ideological cardboard box that can be set up to camouflage against inhumane social orders.
This idea was buried in Geneva on Thursday.