Following a shameful display of appeasement to the Iranian regime, it is now time for the UN Security Council (UNSC) to redeem itself by confronting the mullahs over their nuclear program. After the Iranian president, Ebrahim Raisi, was killed in a helicopter crash on May 19, the UNSC in New York offered their condolences and held a one-minute moment of silence. Raisi was known as the ‘Butcher of Tehran’ for his role as an executioner of tens of thousands of political prisoners. Nevertheless, the UN HQ in Geneva disgracefully flew their flag at half-mast in his honor and in an outrageous affront to the Butcher’s victims, the UN General Assembly held a memorial service on May 30.

Last week, Rafael Grossi, the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Authority (IAEA), told an agency Board of Governors meeting in Vienna, that IAEA inspectors have been denied access to Iran for over three years. He expressed grave fears about the regime’s violation of its commitments to the IAEA, under the terms of Article 18 of Iran’s Nuclear Proliferation Treaty (NPT) Safeguards Agreement. He warned that the mullahs have continued to increase their stockpile of enriched uranium, much of which is now at 60 percent purity, a hair’s breadth away from weapons grade. Grossi said: “There has been no progress in resolving the outstanding safeguards issues. Iran has not provided the Agency with technically credible explanations for the presence of uranium particles of anthropogenic origin at Varamin and Turquzabad, or informed the........

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