27 June 2025 Iran’s Threat Was Delayed—Guterres’ Still Looms
Iran’s nuclear facilities were built under the semi-watchful eye of the world. This week, the UN Secretary-General labeled a “direct threat to peace”—not the nuclear threat itself, but the strike meant to eliminate it!
We’ll always have Guterres. Even in a week of soaring morale, military triumph, and the deflection of an existential threat—he’s there. A blazing torch of institutionalized, legally sanitized antisemitism cloaked in reverence for diplomacy and an almost robotic belief in “dialogue with the enemy,” even when that enemy’s hands are at your throat. But the Middle East isn’t a debating club. It’s a brutal battlefield of power and religious fanaticism. And it’s astonishing that the very man tasked with safeguarding global stability has such a poor grasp of the world he’s meant to serve.
“A troubling development,” fretted the Secretary-General with his famously selective concern. This came after the U.S. delivered a powerful strike on Iran’s Fordow nuclear site—just a hair’s breadth away from completing the means for a second Holocaust. Guterres rose like a lion: “Dangerous escalation!” his fingers danced across the keyboard. “A direct threat to international peace and security! This use of force is troubling! There is no military solution!”
Excuse me? What peace is being threatened here? What movie is he watching?
Let’s recap: Iran—a respectable member of his organization—has openly and repeatedly threatened to destroy another member of that same organization, Israel, through the mass murder of its citizens. And Iran doesn’t just talk—it acts. It arms and funds terrorist groups, builds a choking ring of terror around Israel, manufactures ammunition for this exact purpose, and develops nuclear weapons under the willfully shut eyes of Guterres and the so-called “international community.” Two decades of glorious diplomatic failure have brought us within inches of catastrophe. And just before Tel Aviv becomes Hiroshima and Tehran becomes Nagasaki, tiny Israel, all alone, is forced to act against this global menace and bomb Iran’s nuclear sites.
Then comes the supposed guardian of stability, parroting the talking points of the Axis of Evil, condemning the operation and trotting out diplomacy—the very approach that’s already failed. Because in his view, another mass murder of Jews isn’t such a big deal. And preventing it? Not necessarily worth shaking the Middle East’s illusion of “stability.”
Guterres has never accepted Israel’s right to possess offensive military capabilities. That view, unfortunately, is not so rare. He shares it with Albanese, Trudeau, Macron, Khamenei, Sinwar (may God have mercy on his soul), Ramaphosa, Corbyn, Erdoğan, Sanders, Kim Jong-un, Nasrallah (recently departed), Rafael Correa, Greta Thunberg, Ilhan Omar, and even Rod Stewart. But they’re allowed to think that—they’re private anti-Semites. He, however, as head of the United Nations—a body meant to include and protect Israel’s very existence—has no such luxury. He cannot show understanding for Hamas murderers who set out to butcher Jews, while denying the same empathy to a nation fighting to rescue itself from annihilation. In doing so, he is abandoning a people and fueling organized ethnic incitement.
But Guterres has long lost any connection to the statesmanship and neutrality his role demands. This week, his devotion to Israel-hatred was especially glaring—not alarmed by the existential threat to Israel, but by its removal. And when one of today’s leading crusaders panics—well, that’s usually a good sign. What a shame that instead of babbling on a local Lisbon radio show, he’s out there representing the murderous interests of the world’s darkest regimes—wearing the golden crown of the so-called “United” Nations. And in doing so, the self-righteous preacher who should serve as a pillar of justice has become a real danger to global stability.
By: Anat Vidor, WIZO President
