Mary O’Rourke, Secretary General of the United Nations, stands at the podium waiting for everyone to take their seats. The gathering begins to settle down. “I wish to thank you for taking the time for this special meeting of the General Assembly,” she says into her microphone, then waits her audience out for silence.
When the ambassadors have reached an acceptable level of attention, she continues, “Members of the General Assembly of the United Nations, to maintain effective communication regarding what truly transpired here in this, our host country, over the past few days, I have asked the President of the United States to address this body. Mr. President, you have the floor.”
As the president rises to speak, the Iranian ambassador stands and shouts, “You war monger, you have decimated my country, and now you are here to give us excuses.”
Mary O’Rourke rises from her seat. Controlling her temper, she calls a halt to the Iranian’s rant. “Mr. Ambassador, you may have the floor after the president is through,” she says through clenched teeth.
The ambassador sits back down, angrily jamming on his head set to hear the simultaneous translation of the president’s speech into Farsi. When the president reaches the podium, he repositions the microphone and looks around until he has everyone’s full attention. Once he feels he has, he begins, “Members of the General Assembly, it is my duty to inform this world body about everything that has transpired in the Middle East and in the Western Hemisphere over the last few months, and particularly over the last week.
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