Propaganda coup for Iran

The summit will hardly produce any real results, the state-owned liberal daily Wiener Zeitung writes, saying that Iran will nonetheless use it to make its mark: "The Persians are likely to be disappointed in their hopes that they will land a major coup at the 16th Summit of the Non-Aligned Movement. Because nowadays the alliance, which was originally founded as a counterweight to the Warsaw Pact and Nato, barely holds any sway. Many of the countries that are visiting Tehran now often have widely diverging stances on global politics issues, and not all of them - Saudi Arabia for example - are friends of Iranian policy. … The hosts are chalking it up as a victory that even the Egyptian President Mohammed Mursi and UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon are travelling to Tehran to attend the summit despite warnings from Tel Aviv and Washington. Tehran's message: As a regional power Iran can't be ignored."

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