As Iran Bombing Condemned by UN Council, Jundollah Not Named

By Matthew Russell Lee 
July 16, 2010
The Inner City Press
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UNITED NATIONS, July 16 -- The bombing in Iran claimed by Jundollah, like that in Uganda claimed by Al Shabab, will be condemned by the UN Security Council on Friday afternoon. 
Hillary Clinton, the Secretary of State of the U.S. which Iran has accused of supporting Jundollah was quick to condemn the bombing, and to name Jundollah. 
Now the Security Council will echo Hillary, using the same boiler plate statement it applied to the carnage in Kampala -- not naming the perpetrator, even after credit has been claimed. 
The Council's Uganda statement on Monday did not blame Al Shabab by name. Inner City Press was told that the statement was circulated to Council members before Al Shabab had taken credit. In this case, Jundollah took credit more quickly, and Hillary Clinton named the group in her statement.
But the decision is made, not to name the perpetrator. A Council diplomat who confirmed the absence of Jundollah from the statement as of 3:30 p.m. shrugged when asked no blame was being cast.

Friday, the Council is engaged in a day long debate on "conflict prevention." As such, the Iran bombing statement could more easily be amended to include the name Jundollah and still be circulated and approved before this month's Council President, Joy Ogwu of Nigeria, reads it out loud at the stake out.

At the stakeout, even though it is now July 16, the placement of the flags has yet to be changed. When May turned into June, with the Council in a marathon meeting about the assault on the flotilla to Gaza, the flag and name plates were changed at the stroke of midnight. This month, it has taken sixteen days and counting.