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The Chinese Foreign Ministry deftly avoided committing to any concrete support for Iran during its press briefings on Monday and Tuesday.

U.N. Ambassador Mike Waltz fired back at an Iranian diplomat Saturday when he advised him to temper his remarks, the news coming after the U.S. and Israel launched a major military operation against Iran’s Islamic regime. 

The United Nations will convene an emergency Security Council meeting on Saturday over U.S.-Israel strikes Iran, which U.N. leaders have condemned.

The United States will assume the rotating precedency of the U.N. Security Council (UNSC) on Monday, and first lady Melania Trump is scheduled to become the first sitting first lady to preside over a council meeting.

A U.N. panel on artificial intelligence has been launched to implement global governance of the emerging technology at its sole direction,  the body’s chief António Guterres announced Thursday.

The Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) published a report on Tuesday that found “patterns of human rights violations and abuses perpetrated with impunity against migrants, asylum seekers and refugees in Libya,” including torture, murder, sexual violence, and human trafficking.

On Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Mornings with Maria,” U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Mike Waltz stated that having U.N. backing on sanctions on Iran has been helpful and sometimes other countries “need that stamp of international law”

The latest uproar at the embattled United Nations exploded on Thursday, as Iran — a country that brutally oppresses women and just murdered thousands of its own citizens to thwart a popular uprising — was named vice-chair of the U.N. Commission for Social Development (CSocD), an agency whose purview includes women’s rights and democracy.

The Foreign Ministers of Germany, Austria, and Italy on Thursday joined their French counterpart in condemning U.N. “Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories” Francesca Albanese after she accused Israel of being a “common enemy” of humanity.

France is calling for the resignation of U.N. “Special Rapporteur on the Occupied Palestinian Territories” Francesca Albanese after she branded Israel as a “common enemy,” French Foreign Minister Jean-Noël Barrot said on Wednesday.

The Iranian government held rallies on Wednesday to commemorate the 47th anniversary of the Islamic Revolution in 1979, in an obvious effort to demonstrate strength after massive protests threatened to topple the oppressive government last month. Controversy erupted when U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres allegedly wrote a letter to the president of Iran to congratulate him for the revolution that created the murderous regime in Tehran.

U.N. human rights chief Volker Turk despaired Thursday his agency is “in survival mode” due to funding shortfalls driven by a lack of U.S. taxpayer dollars.

Chile’s outgoing far-left President Gabriel Boric on Monday formally presented the candidacy of socialist former President Michelle Bachelet to become the next U.N. Secretary-General — and announced that her bid is also backed by leftists governments of Brazil and Mexico.

The United Nations is going broke and needs member nations to stump up cash. Lots of it. That is the plea from Secretary-General António Guterres who fears the globalist body is at risk of “imminent financial collapse” due to member states not paying their fees.

The government-run Syrian Arab News Agency confirmed that Syria has been elected as vice-chair of a crimes against humanity UN committee.

Chile’s National Institute of Statistics (INE) on Wednesday published data that showed the country’s fertility rate has fallen to the lowest level in its recorded history: just 0.97 children per woman.

President Donald Trump told reporters aboard Air Force One on Thursday that an “armada” of American warships is heading for Iran, and implied that military force could be on the table if the regime in Tehran continues murdering its own people to stay in power.

America’s withdrawal from the World Health Organization (W.H.O.) is set to formally conclude on Thursday, a year after the U.S. expressed its intent to depart the United Nations agency and a year and two days after President Donald Trump signed an executive order to begin the process.

Trump takes a hand in the ongoing Chagos Islands saga, calling Starmer’s bid to give away the islands a weak and shocking act of stupidity.

The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia posted data this week that showed it carrying out at least 356 executions in 2025, the highest number recorded in the modern era, and a significant increase over the record-breaking 338 executions in 2024.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi claimed on Monday that the uprising against his brutal regime is “now under total control” after hundreds, or even thousands, of civilians were killed by security forces.

A full 15 days after violence, murder, and massacres were first visited on anti-Islamic regime protesters in Iran, United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has acted. He said Sunday he is “shocked” by actions against freedom fighters and called for restraint.

Do as you are told, obey your “legal obligation” and keep sending U.S. taxpayer dollars. That was the message delivered Thursday to the Trump administration from U.N. headquarters in Manhattan, New York City, in the hours after the White House announced it is withdrawing billions in financial support from 66 organizations affiliated with the globalist entity.

The United States has withdrawn from the Green Climate Fund and relinquished its seat on the fund’s board, according to a Treasury Department announcement describing the move as aligned with the Trump administration’s exit from the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change.

The Trump administration announced Wednesday it’s taking U.S. taxpayer dollars away from 66 globalist organizations, nearly half of them affiliated with the United Nations and all of which are identified as “contrary to the interests of the United States.”

Somalia’s Ambassador to the UN, Abukar Dahir Osman, is linked to a home healthcare agency in Cincinnati, Ohio, that was previously prosecuted for Medicaid fraud.

The rotating presidency of the United Nations Security Council (UNSC) will be assumed on January 1 by Somalia – a barely functional state that has exported thousands of “refugees” to the rest of the world, accompanied by crime waves and social distortions.

The State Department and the United Nations jointly announced on Monday that they have agreed to a new framework for processing American funding for the global body, streamlining funds directly to countries in need and potentially saving billions in needless bureaucracy.

President Donald Trump said the United Nations should become more involved in creating world peace amid the clash between Thailand and Cambodia.

The United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) released a report on December 12 that found freedom of expression has declined sharply over the past decade.

Fighting broke out in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo on Monday between Kurdish fighters from the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and security troops loyal to President Ahmed al-Sharaa.

The government of Argentine President Javier Milei has created a government office to support the candidates of International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) chief Rafael Grossi to become the next United Nations secretary-general, the newspaper La Nación reported on Tuesday.

Venezuela’s socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro issued a furious six-page letter to international heads of state and to the United Nations denouncing the United States’ drug-fighting efforts as part of Operation Southern Spear. 

The Southern Transitional Council (STC), the Yemeni separatist movement that abruptly abandoned its alliance with the deposed national government last month and began snapping up oil-rich territory in southern Yemen, is urging the United States to support them against the Iran-backed Houthi extremists who control the northern half of the country.