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Daily Inspiration Quote by Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

"The UN structure is one-sided, stacked against the world of Islam"

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Ahmadinejad’s line is calibrated to do two jobs at once: indict the UN as rigged theater and recast Iran’s grievances as the collective injury of 1.8 billion people. Calling the structure “one-sided” isn’t a complaint about procedural quirks; it’s a direct shot at the post-1945 order that hardwires hierarchy into global legitimacy. The subtext points straight at the Security Council, veto power, and the way “international community” often functions as shorthand for a small club of states whose interests set the boundaries of acceptable politics.

The phrase “stacked against the world of Islam” is the real lever. It fuses disparate conflicts and policies - sanctions regimes, military interventions, the Israel-Palestine file, the rhetoric of the War on Terror - into a single narrative of civilizational bias. That move is strategic: it elevates Iran from defendant to spokesperson, turning scrutiny of its nuclear program or human-rights record into evidence of discrimination rather than accountability. The audience isn’t just diplomats in New York; it’s publics across the Middle East and Global South who have watched Western powers invoke UN legitimacy when convenient and bypass it when not.

Rhetorically, the sentence is blunt on purpose. “Structure” implies the problem is systemic, not fixable by better behavior or nicer speeches. It’s an invitation to see reform, resistance, and alternative blocs as not merely political options but moral necessities, with the added benefit of insulating the speaker from critique: if the game is stacked, losing proves the point.

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Mahmoud Ahmadinejad (born October 28, 1956) is a Statesman from Iran.

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