The United States said Thursday, August 16, that it told Secretary General Ban Ki-moon that an upcoming summit in Iran sent a “strange signal” after Tehran reported that the U.N. chief would attend, Agence France Presse reported. Iranian state media has said that the U.N. chief will visit Tehran for an August 30-31 summit of the Non-Aligned Movement, a group of 120 countries set up during the Cold War to reject alliances with both Washington and Moscow. State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said the United States considers Iran “an inappropriate place for this meeting.” “The fact that the meeting is happening in a country that’s in violation of so many of its international obligations and posing a threat to neighbors... sends a very strange signal with regard to support for the international order,” Nuland told reporters.