In yet another sign of the inept and useless United Nations, the U.N. Security Council has authorized further sanctions against Iran.

The United Nations Security Council has authorized further sanctions against Iran over its failure to suspend its uranium enrichment activities. Iran maintains that its nuclear programme is entirely peaceful and does not fall under the Security Council’s remit.

Fourteen of the fifteen council members voted in favour of Resolution 1803, citing Iran’s refusal to suspend “uranium enrichment and heavy-water related projects” as required in earlier resolutions, and “taking issue with the International Atomic Energy Agency’s (IAEA) right to verify design information provided to it.” Indonesia abstained. IAEA Director General Mohamed ElBaradei has been asked to report back to the Security Council on whether Iran has fully suspended enrichment activities within 90 days.

So the dance over nuclear weapons continues, with Iran still destabilizing the Iraqi regime.

The former number two US commander in Iraq charged Tuesday that Iran is still training, funding and arming Shiite extremists in Iraq, with the aim of keeping a weak government in Baghdad.

“I think we have to keep the pressure on them,” said Lieutenant General Raymond Odierno, who until recently was second in command in Iraq in charge of day-to-day military operations.

“What they ought to stop doing is training surrogates, funding surrogates and supplying weapons to them, which they are still doing today,” he told reporters …

Odierno acknowledged that Iraq needed good relations with Iran, but questioned whether Iran is being “helpful,” citing its continued support for Shiite extremists.

The general alluded to a boast on Monday by Ahmadinejad that he was able to visit Iraq openly, unlike other foreign leaders who made unannounced visits that lasted just a few hours.

“My comment is I’m not surprised. Because over the last 12 months whenever a visitor would come from the United States, we needed to foil a rocket attack, he said.

“Guess what? That is because it was being done by an Iranian surrogate.”

The blog dedicated to Mahmoud Ahmadinejad recently linked my post entitled State Actors in Transnational Insurgencies.  Maybe they will link this one too, when I say that Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is a criminal terrorist who deserves the death penalty and the Iranian Mullahs deserve to be imprisoned because of their fomenting of terror across the globe.