UN Security Council Meets After Iran’s Unprecedented Air Barrage Against Israel

The United Nations Security Council met in an emergency session on April 14^th at the request of Israel to discuss Iran’s unprecedented launching of 170 drones, 120 ballistic missiles, and 30 cruise missiles from Iran’s own soil towards Israel. Fortunately, Iran’s plans for maximum destruction failed as 99 percent of Iran’s aerial barrage was intercepted by Israel, with the assistance of the United States, the United Kingdom, and even Jordan.

Only a show of resolute force will impress this terrorist regime

Iran’s terrorist proxy Hezbollah also fired about 40 rockets from Lebanon into Israel.

UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres condemned Iran’s attack in his remarks to the Security Council. However, in a veiled warning to Israel not to conduct a counterattack against Iran, the Secretary General asserted that any further reprisals would violate international law. He told the Security Council that it was “time to step back from the brink.”

President Biden is reported to have delivered a similar message to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during their phone call following Iran’s attack on Israel over this past weekend. He said that the U.S. would not participate in an Israeli counterattack.

“You got a win. Take the win,” President Biden told Prime Minister Netanyahu, according to a senior Biden administration official. This ludicrous statement is on par with Biden’s feckless "warning" to Iran just before its attack on Israel: “Don’t.” Iran ignored Biden.

Only a show of resolute force will impress this terrorist regime.

Only the United States, the United Kingdom, and France condemned Iran’s brazen attack without any qualification

Secretary General Guterres and various Security Council members, while condemning Iran’s attack, also condemned Israel’s military action on April 1^st that killed senior members of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), a Hezbollah fighter, and several other Iran-backed militiamen. The Iranian IRCG leader whom Israel prioritized for targeting at Iran’s consulate in Damascus, Syria was Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Zahedi, a senior commander in the Quds Force of IRCG. Zahedi’s deputy General Mohammad Hadi Hajriahimi was also among those killed. They were meeting at the consulate with their terrorist comrades at the time.

Russia and Algeria delivered the strongest remarks at the Security Council meeting denouncing Israel and defending Iran’s attack as a justifiable response in “self-defense.” China was also critical of Israel. Only the United States, the United Kingdom, and France condemned Iran’s brazen attack without any qualification.

Secretary General Guterres, along with various Security Council members, said that international law requires the “inviolability” of diplomatic and consular premises and personnel to be respected in all cases. But it was Iran that forfeited its right to such respect in the first place when the IRGC used the Iranian consulate in Syria, a client state of Iran, to coordinate further military actions against Israel.

Zahedi has had long-standing connections with Hezbollah, Iran’s most militarily sophisticated terrorist proxy. Indeed, Zahedi was a member of Hezbollah’s chief decision-making body, the Shura Council.

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Israel had the legal right in its own self-defense to eliminate Zahedi and his fellow terrorist co-conspirators 

Hezbollah’s Secretary General Hassan Nasrallah said that his Iran-backed terrorist group “owed a lot” to the IRCG senior commander. So does Hamas. According to a report by the Middle East Media Research Institute, a close associate of Iranian Supreme Leader Khamenei said that Zahedi had "a strategic role" in "the planning and execution of Al-Aqsa Flood." That is Iran's and Hamas's euphemism for Hamas’ genocidal attack on October 7^th against civilians in Israel.

Israel had the legal right in its own self-defense to eliminate Zahedi and his fellow terrorist co-conspirators where they were all gathering before they could do any further harm against the Jewish state. In this regard, it is critical to recall that Israel did not act in a vacuum. It was subjected to the worst massacre of Jews on a single day since the Holocaust by Hamas and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad, two Iranian terrorist proxies. Then, as Israel responded militarily to the terrorists’ unprovoked brutal attack in order to destroy the terrorists’ capability to harm Israeli civilians again, Israel was bombarded from all different directions by other Iranian terrorist proxies, especially Hezbollah.

The Iranian regime's leaders have repeatedly discussed eliminating Israel, which they refer to as the "Zionist entity" and a "cancer" that must be removed.

Iranian regime was not only a threat to Israel

Through its terrorist proxies, and now acting directly against Israel itself, the Iranian regime is demonstrating its intent to make good on its threats.

Enough was enough. Israel decided that the time had finally come to push back against the head of the snake itself, Iran. When the opportunity presented itself, Israel took it.

Israel’s UN Ambassador Gilad Erdan told the Security Council that the Iranian regime was not only a threat to Israel. Ambassador Erdan said that Iran "must be stopped before it drives the world to a point of no return, to a regional war that can escalate to a world war." He called for the Security Council to impose “crippling” sanctions.

But Ambassador Erdan knows all too well that the Security Council will do no such thing and that Iran will escape any repercussions from the UN system, which is highly biased against Israel. Thus, Israel will have to do whatever it has to do to protect its own people from Iran and its terrorist proxies. As Ambassador Erdan said, Israel is a “nation of lions” and will not allow itself to be treated like a “frog in boiling water.”

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