The Rosett Report » Why Not Just Call It the UN World Tyrants Organization?
By Claudia Rosett On November 5, 2012 @ 6:43 pm In Uncategorized | 1 Comment
Just in case you want a break from the U.S. election news, spare a thought for the UN World Tourism Organization(UNWTO), headquartered in Madrid. Sounds benign, right? Just a friendly way of promoting development in exotic places?
Well, now comes a dispatch from Iran’s PressTV news service [1], announcing that during a UNWTO meeting just held in Mexico, it was decided that Iran will host a ministerial meeting of the Non-Aligned Movement in 2013. This meeting will be dedicated, of course, to tourism. Not that Iran’s regime, with its apocalyptic obsessions, genocidal ambitions, domestic repression and distinct hostility toward large and restive segments of its own population, is exactly a beacon of the tourism industry. But for a regime under sanctions due to its human rights violations and illicit nuclear program, the tourism trade may have its own special charms — coupled as it looks likely to be in this case with the chance to play diplomatic patron to scores of visiting ministers, and perhaps explore the many ways in which the tourism industry lends itself to laundering money and camouflaging deals for things other than souvenir keychains and pomegranate smoothies near the Strait of Hormuz.
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Well, now comes a dispatch from Iran’s PressTV news service [1], announcing that during a UNWTO meeting just held in Mexico, it was decided that Iran will host a ministerial meeting of the Non-Aligned Movement in 2013. This meeting will be dedicated, of course, to tourism. Not that Iran’s regime, with its apocalyptic obsessions, genocidal ambitions, domestic repression and distinct hostility toward large and restive segments of its own population, is exactly a beacon of the tourism industry. But for a regime under sanctions due to its human rights violations and illicit nuclear program, the tourism trade may have its own special charms — coupled as it looks likely to be in this case with the chance to play diplomatic patron to scores of visiting ministers, and perhaps explore the many ways in which the tourism industry lends itself to laundering money and camouflaging deals for things other than souvenir keychains and pomegranate smoothies near the Strait of Hormuz.
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