UN Watch Testimony Delivered by Hillel Neuer before the U.N. Human Rights Council, Urgent Debate on Iranian Aggression, March 25, 2026
Mr. President,
Four months ago, at the Oxford Union, I stood in a debate-facing a former Iranian Vice-President and PA Prime Minister-where the proposition claimed that Israel was a greater threat to regional stability than the Islamic Republic of Iran. A majority in that chamber voted yes.
I warned them they had it exactly backwards.
Today, reality has delivered its verdict.
This very urgent debate-requested by Bahrain, Jordan, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates-confirms what the facts have long shown.
That Iran’s radical theocracy is devoted to exporting war, terror, chaos and death across the region - and the world.
Iran has launched direct aggression against its neighbors - thousands of missiles and drones, bombing homes, playgrounds, airports, and desalination plants.
So let us be clear: the world now sees who is the real threat to regional stability.
I hope the Oxford Union will reflect on its vote.
But I also ask the United Nations and this Council to reflect on your own record.
Because for years, the UN has falsely treated Israel as the central threat. Why is there a permanent agenda item on the democracy defending itself from terror, the one making peace and normalization accords with its neighbors, including Egypt, Jordan, Bahrain, UAE, and hopefully soon many others?
Why do you have no agenda item instead on the Islamic Revolutionary Guards that murder their own people, hunts critics across Europe and America, and export terror on four continents?
If the UN is serious about protecting peace, you must choose: between illusion and truth - between appeasing aggression, and confronting it.
