The UN failure to deter Washington from leading a missile assault on Syria has indeed called into question the authority of the world body, an analyst said.
On April 14, several locations in Syria were hit overnight by the US, Britain and France with over a hundred missiles, in retaliation for an alleged chemical strike by the Syrian government against the positions of western-backed rebels in the city of Douma in Eastern Ghouta.
"The three [western] countries have violated the sovereignty of an independent country. Under the framework of the UN Charter they should have been prosecuted. Syria and Russia should complain to the UN Security Council and hold [them] accountable," Ali Khorram, Iran's former ambassador to the UN’s European Headquarters in Vienna, said Friday in a talk with IRNA.
Iran and Russia, the main allies of President Bashar al-Assad reacted sharply to the move, denying the chemical attack had occurred and condemned the western military move as an attempt to prop up the struggling opposition groups in the seven-year civil strife and force Assad out of office.
Expressing dismay at the UN approach to the issue, Khorram said, "It seems the world needs a mechanism different from that of the United Nations to be able to counter US President Donald Trump's radical decisions."
Moscow and Washington called for separate emergency UN Security Council meetings days after the reports of the chemical attack, where the two powers vetoed each other's proposals for investigation into the reports.
An international team of chemical weapons experts was in Syria to investigate the allegations, but the US-led attacks were conducted before they could reach Douma.
"The US, France and Britain should have submitted evidence to the UN Security Council to back up their charges that Syria's government used chemical weapons against the opposition forces," Khorram said.
"But [it] did not happen. The council did not present the findings of its probe, nor did the US, the UK and France come up with any evidence to prove their claim. This is while the Syrian envoy told a Security Council meeting that 'we are in possession of recorded videos that show Jaish al-Islam [fighters] conducting chemical tests to produce such weapons.'"
On Friday a Sputnik report said Russia's military had found further evidence of manufacturing of poisonous substances by the banned Jaish al-Islam terror group in a laboratory in Douma.
"During the examination of the chemical laboratory a lot of hexamine was discovered, which is yet more proof that the militants had been producing chemical weapons," said Alexander Rodionov, a specialist with Russia's radiological, chemical and biological defense corps.
He explained that the substance is used for making explosives, as well as sarin-type nerve agents, adding that the lab's equipment was "highly likely" to have been made in Germany or the UK.
The United States has accused Russia of blocking inspectors from the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons reaching the site of the suspected attacks in Syria and says the Russians or Syrians may have tampered with evidence on the ground, charges they deny.
A month before the Douma false flag attack and the ensuing strike, the Russian General Staff had warned about such a development, Sputnik said.
