Syria's state-run SANA news agency reported today on some of the comments made by Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmedinejad at the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) summit in Rome. The president allegedly proclaimed that Iran, in light of the current crisis, has clear solutions for the fair production and distribution of food supplies to the international community.
However, instead of explicitly detailing any solutions to the issues at hand, SANA's coverage suggests that the Iranian president is instead using the conference to discredit UN policies and question the motives of member states within the security council. Perhaps this comes to no surprise considering the recent tone of US officials in calling for increasing sanctions against Iran for its nuclear program.
In fact, the Iranian president even called for resolving the crisis outside the framework of the UN since, in his opinion, powers within the security council have used resolutions to implement unjust policies.
According to SANA's report, he also stated that the rises in the price of oil and food supplies are the result of the desire of some of the bigger powers to devaluate the dollar, and that both “visible and invisible hands are working for the sake of controlling prices in order to achieve their political and economic goals.” The report also indicates that Ahmedinejad is convinced that the reason for the rise in oil prices and food production is “a market system that does not respond positively to all of the variables and the targeted intervention by the hegemonic and ruling powers in the world.”
