Iran summit stumbles on nuclear weapons, Israel, Syria criticism

Ouch that must have been a slap in the face for Khamenei's regime.

God/s bless Mr.Ban for saying the truth, even in such harsh environments like Teheran, where if he were a regular Iranian, he would be thrown in jail, tortured, killed off, silenced, just like over in Cuba and North Korea.

Iran doesn't have nuclear weapons.

But,

In the face of US aggression it most likely wants them eh?

In the face of US aggression it most likely wants them eh?

kurisupisu -- huh? Exactly what "aggression" are you speaking of? The U.S. has been a non-factor in the reform sweeping the Arab world, participating only in support of the Libyian rebels in a very limited manner with Europe in the lead, and refusing to get involved militarily in Syria. And if you are referring to Iraq, in case you failed to notice, that catastrophe was launched under a previous administration more than a decade ago, and Obama has withdrawn all U.S. combat troops.

Iran shamelessly without hesitation exploits the non-aligned nations for own purpose. These religious extremist show their real intents and the way they view the world. Iranian peoples deserve better than that.

Nutjobs.

It's not possible to take this guy Morsi seriously anymore. He can't possibly pretend to be interested in working towards a political solution after simply using this opportunity to do nothing but launch a tirade in support of his Sunni co-religionists. He has demonstrated that he is a sectarian Islamist, and it's hard to imagine what purpose the talk of cooperation before his address was meant to serve.

President Mohamed Morsi—making the first visit to Iran by an Egyptian head of state since the 1979 Islamic revolution—in turn embarrassed his hosts by voicing support for the Syrian opposition, which is fighting the Damascus regime unwaveringly backed by Iran.

“The revolution in Egypt is the cornerstone for the Arab Spring, which started days after Tunisia and then it was followed by Libya and Yemen and now the revolution in Syria against its oppressive regime,” Morsi said.

Iran summit did not stumble. We should applaud this summit. Despite strong objections from the west, doing everything they could to prevent this meeting. Representatives of 2/3 of the world's population attended. Iran is in no way isolated.

Interestingly, this article chose to focus on comments from two people who are clearly in the pocket of US et al.

Of course Morsi will criticize Assad and say nothing against the rebels, he receives billions in aid from the US and Qatar, two major backers of the rebels.

This article should have mentioned other things that were discussed at the meeting, such as their calling for a complete ban on nuclear weapons and setting as a goal to have them completely eliminated by 2025.

Hahaha, that Iran summit so funny! In its own summit, Ban keeping it real in support of his own organization's IAEA, and Morsi finding something in common with the West despite being the antagonist of the US-backed Egyptian military.

It is difficult to look in the mirror and not see what you think you should see - just old men with old ideas. This may have been the first, positive action done by the U.N.

"In its own summit, Ban keeping it real in support of his own organization's IAEA, and Morsi finding something in common with the West despite being the antagonist of the US-backed Egyptian military."

Exactly. The US were wrong to criticize Ban for attending. Rather than adding legitimacy he's told them how it is. And Morsi's comments on the Syrian civil war were welcome, he seems to be quite a paradox.

Nice to see that the new regional demcracies are willing to stand up to the Iranian dictators. I'm starting to like this Morsi fellow.

Morsi is not a paradox.

He is a sectarian Sunni leader of the Muslim brotherhood.

He has opposed the US installed military leaders in Egypt, who have a more secular bend than the brotherhood.

And he has opposed the Alawites for oppressing the Sunni who seek to oppress the Alawites by establishing their own Sunni Islamist government. Assad's father had to suppress a revolt by a "Muslim brotherhood" organization in the past, from what I gather.

This time the Sunnis have the backing of war mongers in France, Germany, the UK, and to a seemingly lesser extent, the USA (to Obama's credit, perhaps).

I would like to see an end to the hostilities in Syria as soon as possible, and hopefully the new peace envoy will be able to sort out a solution. Morsi offered nothing in that regard.

People need to bear in mind that Assad has used less than 10% of his military resources thus far, and talk by Turkey of a buffer zone risks serious escalation.

Assad has already said he would use chemical weapons in the event of a foreign incursion, and the USA has said that would be a red line.

The whole region could go up in flames.

"I would like to see an end to the hostilities in Syria as soon as possible, and hopefully the new peace envoy will be able to sort out a solution. "

That's going to be kinda hard with your mother russia defending the dictator as he enters his 18th month of putting down the rebellion against his family dynasty.

"He has opposed the US installed military leaders in Egypt"

What a load of tosh.

Morsi finding something in common with the West despite being the antagonist of the US-backed Egyptian military." Exactly

You would seem to have agreed that Morsi was working to undermine the power of the military in Egypt a comment or two prior.

Assad agreed with the peace plan of Annan, but the West says Assad has to go, so there is no political settlement.

The West does not have the moral high ground, and you can add China to the supporters of Assad...

The meeting, successfully gathering representatives from 120 countries, was in fact a big embarassment for the U.S. Just wonder why the Secretary Clinton was in the middle of nowhere in S. Pacific to pull China's leg. Mr. K.M. Ban did something rather stupid -- offending both the U.S. & the 120 countries.

This summit had leaders and government officials representing about 2/3 of the world population. The final communique adopted unanimously at this summit expressed support for Iran's nuclear program, rejected the United States' unilateral sanctions against the Islamic Republic, and called for greater efforts to support the Palestinian cause.