Today's best under-reported story: the Non-Aligned Movement summit

The Non-Aligned Movement is meeting in Iran from 26 August to 31 August. Big US media reports this, when its members report it, as an Iran story, as in 'Iran uses the NAM to criticize the US,' or as another chapter in the unfolding story of Iran-Israel-US tensions. But if one takes seriously what the NAM was and might be, there's more to it than that. As this Al-Jazeera column makes clear, Iran's role here is bitterly ironic in light of the autocratic nature of the current regime. And Iran's role overshadows - and threatens - the important shift in geopolitical framing that comes with the move to what one might think of as an alternative, non-NATO/US-led UN, as noted here.