Former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton said Thursday that the Obama administration is doing "almost nothing" to protect Iranians from the violence of their own regime - as represented at the United Nations by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Minutes before Ahmadinejad addressed the annual General Assembly, about 1,000 irate Iranian-Americans staged a protest rally in Dag Hammarskjold Plaza, facing the U.N.
Children stomped on a poster of Ahmadinejad among banners that covered the pavement. "Down With the Islamic Republic of Iran," read one.
Bolton, who served as ambassador during George W. Bush's presidency, told The Associated Press that the United States had failed to stop Iran from torturing and killing its own people.
"We expect that our commitment to the people of Iran is going to be upheld," he said. "Right now, the Obama administration is doing almost nothing."
He said this week's release of two American hikers held for years by Iran was what he called "just Broadway theater."
Source: Forbes.com
