Tehran, Aug. 30 (ANI): Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has slammed the 'overt dictatorship' of the UN Security Council in a speech opening a Tehran summit that included UN chief Ban Ki-moon.
"The UN Security Council has an irrational, unjust and utterly undemocratic structure, and this is an overt dictatorship," Khamenei said during the Non-Aligned Movement summit attended by 120 nations.
According to the Gulf News, Iran is in an argument with the United Nations over its disputed nuclear programme, which has resulted in four sets of Security Council resolutions imposing sanctions on it for pursuing uranium enrichment.
A two-day Non-Aligned Movement summit opened in Tehran on Thursday, which is being attended by the heads of state or government and senior officials from 120 nations.
Leaders attending the NAM summit include the presidents of Afghanistan, Lebanon, Pakistan, Sudan, Zimbabwe and the Palestinian Authority, and the Emir of Qatar, the report said.
The prime ministers of India, Iraq and Syria are also attending the Summit.
Iran, which is subject to intense Western pressure over its disputed nuclear programme, was keen to portray the meeting as evidence it was not the pariah the United States has made it out to be, the report said.
Ban's presence has been criticised by Israel and the United States, but the UN chief used pre-summit meetings with Khamenei and President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to take them to task over their recent anti-Israel rhetoric, and their country's uranium enrichment activities in defiance of several UN resolutions, the report added. (ANI)
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