U.S. and Israel Launch a Noble Military Operation Against the Evil Iranian Regime

UN leaders once again display a total lack of moral clarity

Joseph A. Klein, CFP United Nations Columnist ——Bio and Archives--March 1, 2026

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On February 28th, the United States and Israel launched what the U.S. calls “Operation Epic Fury” against the Iranian regime. In addition to targeting the regime’s leadership and nuclear enrichment sites, they have destroyed ballistic missiles, missile launchers, and naval facilities, as well as hitting the regime’s military and security infrastructure. The operation may last a week or more.

Senior United Nations officials took little time before condemning the attacks 

Predictably, senior United Nations officials took little time before condemning the attacks and calling for more dialogue between the parties. Secretary General Antonio Guterres urged “an immediate cessation of hostilities and de-escalation” and for “all parties to return immediately to the negotiating table.”

UN Human Rights Chief Volker Türk echoed the Secretary General’s remarks. “I call for restraint and implore all parties to see reason, to de-escalate, and for a return to the ‘negotiating table,’” he said.

To what end? Giving the Iranian regime more time to cross the point of no return and build nuclear bombs with their highly enriched uranium upgraded to a weapon-grade level? To see more unarmed Iranian civilians peacefully protesting shot to death at close range?

President Trump tried the negotiation path for weeks to end Iran’s nuclear enrichment program peacefully. The Iranian regime stalled for more time during negotiations to further advance its nuclear enrichment activities, believing that President Trump was bluffing when he said that he might order military force against the regime if the talks fail. The regime lost its bet. Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and other top Iranian leaders paid with their lives.

President Trump laid out the military operation’s objective: “to defend the American people by eliminating imminent threats from the Iranian regime, a vicious group of very hard, terrible people.” He said that his administration “has taken every possible step to minimize the risk to U.S. personnel in the region.” Even so,” he added, “and I do not make this statement lightly, the Iranian regime seeks to kill. The lives of courageous American heroes may be lost and we may have casualties. That often happens in war, but we’re doing this not for now. We’re doing this for the future, and it is a noble mission.”

America is backing you with overwhelming strength and devastating force

The president asked the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps, the Iranian armed forces, and the police to “lay down your weapons.” He offered them “total immunity” if they did. Otherwise, he warned, they would “face certain death.”

President Trump also addressed the Iranian people directly: “For many years, you have asked for America’s help, but you never got it. No president was willing to do what I am willing to do tonight. Now you have a president who is giving you what you want, so let’s see how you respond. America is backing you with overwhelming strength and devastating force.”

Iran has fired multiple waves of ballistic missiles and drones in retaliation against population centers in Israel and U.S. bases in several Arab countries, causing some deaths and injuries including to several American military personnel. One ace that the regime has up its sleeve is the closing of the Strait of Hormuz, assuming they still have the military assets to do so. Tasnim, a news outlet affiliated with the Iran Revolutionary Guard Corps, has claimed that this crucial global shipping lane has been “effectively closed,” but the extent to which this is true remains uncertain.

The UN Security Council met in emergency session late in the afternoon on February 28th. Secretary General Guterres opened the meeting by repeating his condemnation of the U.S. and Israeli airstrikes, which he claimed violated international law. He then condemned the Iranian regime for violating the sovereignty and territorial integrity of Bahrain, Iraq, Jordan, Kuwait, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates with its retaliatory attacks. The Secretary General neglected to mention the regime’s deliberate targeting of Israeli civilian population centers with ballistic missiles and drones.

Of course, Russia and China spoke strongly against the American and Israeli military operation against the Iranian regime. China called it “brazen.” Russia’s UN ambassador shamelessly declared: “The actions taken by Washington and West Jerusalem are nothing but yet another unprovoked act of armed aggression against a sovereign and independent UN Member State, in violation of the UN Charter and of the fundamental principles of international law.”

The UN’s leaders sound like the appeaser Neville Chamberlain before World War II. We need another Winston Churchill

Russia launched an unprovoked invasion of the sovereign UN member state of Ukraine four years ago, a war of aggression which Russia is still conducting and that is devastating the lives of innocent Ukrainian civilians. The hypocrisy of the Russian ambassador weaponizing the UN Charter and international law against the U.S. and Israel, while not surprising, is still staggering.

The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Mike Waltz, defended the legality of the U.S.-Israel military operation. “This is a moment in history that requires moral clarity and President Trump has met the moment,” he said. “No responsible nation can ignore persistent aggression and violence.” He noted that Iran's continued pursuit of advanced missile capabilities and its refusal to abandon its nuclear ambitions represent “a grave and mounting danger.”

Iran’s UN Ambassador Amir Saeid Iravani charged that the United States and Israel not only committed “an act of aggression; it is a war crime and a crime against humanity.”

Talk about the pot calling the kettle black! The fanatical Islamist regime has been at war with the United States since it came to power in 1979 and took dozens of Americans hostage. And it has since committed countless war crimes and crimes against humanity, directly and through its terrorist proxies that have cost countless Americans and others their lives.

Israeli Ambassador Danny Danon delivered a very blunt response. He noted the Iranian regime’s continuation of its nuclear weapons program, its expanded missile arsenals, its armed proxies across the region, and its threats to erase Israel from the map. The regime was “building the means to force an irreversible reality with our backs against the wall,” Ambassador Danon said. “That is not a future Israel will accept."

The UN’s leaders sound like the appeaser Neville Chamberlain before World War II. We need another Winston Churchill, whose shoes President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu are filling with their bold action to combat an evil regime with Hitlerian-like ambitions.

Joseph A. Klein is the author of Global Deception: The UN’s Stealth Assault on America’s Freedom.

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