When members of the United Nations assembled to negotiate the framework of its gun-control treaty, they appointed Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's Iran to spearhead the effort. Of course, it didn't matter that the UNSecurity Council had just found Ahmadinejad's Iran guilty of illegally transferring guns and bombs to Syria... weapons that Syria used to murder thousands of its own people in cold blood.
It didn't matter to the UN because, as former UN Ambassador John Bolton recently said, the so-called UN Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) is not about regulating "international arms trade between nation states... the real agenda here is domestic firearms control,” and we're not about to sit back and let duplicitous politicians and third-world thugs get away with it.
