Analyst's note:  Oh this one is absolutely choice.  Please see if you can answer the question in the first paragraph .... apparently the thugs in th U.N. are unable to do so correctly.  What could possibly go wrong with this decision?

Let us propose a thought experiment – suppose you were assembling a Neighborhood Watch party specifically designed to find and stop locals from using drugs. Would you elect someone as a member who makes an open secret of the fact that their basement is stuffed with cocaine?

If you’re the United Nations, the answer is apparently, “Of course, why on earth not?” Except instead of stopping individual people from using drugs, this particular neighborhood watch is meant to prevent countries from developing weapons, and instead of cocaine, in Iran‘s case it’s a potential cache of nuclear weapons that is being (poorly) hidden. CNS News reports:

Iran has been chosen as a member of the “bureau” overseeing a month-long United Nations conference in New York aimed at finalizing a controversial global “arms trade treaty.”[...]

“This is like choosing Bernie Madoff to police fraud on the stock market,” said Hillel Neuer, executive director of UN Watch, a non-governmental monitoring group based in Geneva, which drew attention to Iran’s elevation to the conference bureau.