Israel’s Ambassador to the United Nations Danny Danon speaking during a UN Security Council session, Oct. 16, 2024. (Photo: UN photo/Evan Schneider)
Israeli UN Ambassador Danny Danon on Wednesday warned that the Iranian ayatollah regime threatens world peace with its acts of global terrorism and ambitions to acquire nuclear weapons.
“The Islamic regime of Iran is a danger to the entire world. The recent report from the International Atomic Energy Agency on Iran’s nuclear progression, alongside the recent letter from the UK, France and Germany, highlighting Iran’s, and I quote, ‘significant non compliance,’ were cries for immediate action,” Danon argued.
“This is not about a hypothetical future. The danger is already here, looming on the horizon,” he continued.
Danon also urged the UN Security Council to implement “crushing” sanctions against Iran’s ability to fund global terrorism. He called for Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) to be officially designated as a terrorist organization.
The ambassador argued that the international community currently has a chance to “liberate the world from the most corrupt, most violent, most destabilizing regime.”
The IRGC and its elite Quds force have played a central role in building the “ring of fire” against Israel, consisting of Iranian-backed terror proxies, such as Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Hezbollah, militants in Iraq and Syria, as well as the Houthis in Yemen.
Danon directly addressed the Iranian people in his UN speech.
“I am telling the Iranian people, we know the cost of freedom and the courage it demands,” the Israeli ambassador said. He urged freedom-loving Iranians to take back their country.
“Your fight is not just for yourselves but for the millions of lives the regime has destabilized and destroyed. In your hands lie the power to restore the beautiful Iranian nation, to rebuild a land rich in history, culture and resilience,” Danon said, urging Iranians to “take action now.”
He reminded listeners that the Jewish Maccabee fight for freedom against the powerful Greek Empire will be commemorated in the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah this month
“With a statement to human courage, to the will of a small but determined people who refused to bow to tyranny,” Danon said.
“Just weeks ago, we saw a cruel and evil regime also overthrown by the determined population, which had instead been oppressed for decades. We all know what Assad did to his people,” Danon added, referring to now-deposed Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad and the collapse of the Assad regime .
“Israel has no intention of occupying Syria or parts of Syria. We are not empire builders. We are defenders,” Danon concluded, rejecting international criticism of Israeli soldiers operating in the buffer zone between Israel and Syria.
Last night, the Israeli Air Force struck several strategic targets in Yemen belonging to Houthi rebels in Yemen, in response to recent Houthi missile and drone attacks on the Jewish state.
Armed and funded by the Iranian regime, the Houthis have fired hundreds of missiles and drones against Israel under the pretext of “solidarity” with the Hamas terrorist organization in Gaza. In addition, the Houthis have disrupted international shipping in the Red Sea by attacking civilian vessels.
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