Some UN council members worse than Iran-Nicaraguan

By Louis Charbonneau UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Some members of the U.N. Security Council have done things "infinitely worse" than Iran, which is seeking a seat on the council, the president of the U.N. General Assembly said on Friday. Miguel D'Escoto Brockmann, who was foreign minister in the left-wing Sandinista government that ruled Nicaragua from 1979-1990, was asked whether he thought Iran should be on the 15-nation Security Council when the country is under U.N. sanctions over its nuclear program. "There are members of the Security Council right now who have done things infinitely worse than Iran could ever do," D'Escoto told a news conference. When asked who he was referring to, D'Escoto, who has a... [read full story]