UN Secretary General Whines about the Attacks on Iran

Here we go again. Another day and another pearl-clutching sermon from the United Nations’ resident scold, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. Fresh off the U.S. and Israeli strikes that finally started punching holes in Iran’s nuclear and missile programs – and reducing the rogue nation’s ability to export terrorism – Guterres could not resist jumping in with both feet to condemn … the good guys.

In his sanctimonious statement, he declared the military escalation in the Middle East “undermines international peace and security” and warned that “military action carries the risk of igniting a chain of events that no one can control in the most volatile region of the world.” Oh, please. Has Guterres not noticed that the Middle East has been the world’s leading chaotic and unstable region of generations?

Just to make sure everyone knew exactly whose side the UN was on, Guterres tossed in this kicker: “It has gone on long enough.” Translation? America and Israel had better stop defending themselves and the free world or risk hurting the UN’s feelings. Guterres would have the free world abandon the fight and allow the old regime to reconstitute and re-commence its nuclear program.

While Guterres is busy lecturing from his cushy New York perch about “immediate cessation of hostilities” – and pushing everyone back to the negotiating table that failed to produce results for almost half a century — NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte is out there talking like a grown-up with a spine. Rutte did not wring his hands or spout nonsense. No, he praised the U.S.-Israeli action straight up, calling it “really important” because it is “taking out, degrading the capacity of Iran to get its hands on nuclear capability, the ballistic missile capability.”

Rutte went even further, saying President Trump and the allies are doing this “to make the whole world safe” by taking out Iran’s role as an “exporter of chaos, sheer chaos to the region, to the world.” See the difference? One guy’s a spineless bureaucrat playing a two-sided moral equivalence game. The other is a leader who recognizes a clear and present danger when he sees one – and is not afraid to say that the good guys are right to act.

For an organization founded to “save succeeding generations from the scourge of war,” the United Nations has spent an impressive amount of time watching those scourges unfold from a safe distance. Decade after decade, crisis after crisis, the UN has perfected the art of sternly worded disappointment — a modern diplomatic genre all its own.

This is not some isolated slip-up by Guterres. It is the organization’s DNA. For decades, the UN has been a bloated, corrupt debating society that could not resolve a playground fight, let alone a world crisis. Name a hot spot – Rwanda, Iraq, Afghanistan, Bosnia, Syria, Yemen, Gaza, and many other conflicts – and the UN’s response was a flurry of strongly worded resolutions, emergency sessions, and photo-ops for the cameras … at best. Results? Zilch.

For 50 years, Iran and its proxies – Hezbollah, Hamas, the Houthis – have been exporting death and destruction from Beirut to Buenos Aires. Even in the UN’s hometown of New York city. What has the UN done? Nothing. Or worse, outright enabling. How many times has the General Assembly passed resolutions condemning Israel for defending itself while giving a free pass to the terror sponsors in Tehran? Too many to count. The UN Human Rights Council spends more time obsessing over the Jewish state than it does over actual genocidal and terrorist regimes. Ponder this. In 2023, Iran was appointed to chair … (you better sit down for this one) … the UN Human Rights Council Social Forum, a high‑profile annual event under the UNHRC umbrella. A nation killing its own people and spreading terrorism as official policy and the UN puts them in charge of a human rights event.

Guterres’ official statement is the latest episode in the UN’s long, sorry history of anti-American posturing. Guterres did not condemn Iran’s decades of proxy wars, hostage-taking, and nuclear cheating. He did not demand that Tehran stop arming every jihadist. No, it zeroed in on the U.S. and Israel for daring to take the fight to the source of the problem.

If the UN had half the backbone Rutte showed in his straightforward support for degrading Iran’s terrorism machine, maybe we would not be here. But no – Guterres prefers the high road of “both sides” equivocation, even as Iranian missiles rain down and the mullahs scream for more blood – “Death to America,” “Death to Israel.”

The hypocrisy is thicker than the fog over Turtle Bay. The same UN that could not stop Saddam Hussein, could not deter al-Qaeda, and could not lift a finger against ISIS now lectures America and Israel. The only thing that’s gone on long enough is the UN’s endless parade of failure, bias, and anti-American bile. While real leaders like Rutte back the actions that actually make the world safer, Guterres and his globalist echo chamber keep proving why the UN is less a force for peace and more a punchline.

Another day and another reason to wonder why we keep footing the bill for this farce. Time to defund the dysfunction. It has gone on long enough.

So there ’tis.