'The danger is already here' - Israeli ambassador to UN says Iranian regime threatens world peace

The Israeli UN Ambassador Danny Danon warned on Wednesday that the Iranian ayatollah regime threatens world peace with its 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 United Nations Security Council to implement “crushing” sanctions against Iran’s ability to fund global terrorism. He also called for the official designation of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) as a terrorist organization.

Danon consequently argued that the international community currently has a chance to "liberate the world from the most corrupt, most violent, most destabilizing regime."

Created after the Islamic revolution in Iran in 1979, the IRGC’s main tasks are to preserve the ayatollah regime and promote global terrorism under the guise of exporting the Islamic revolution throughout the Middle East and beyond.

The IRGC and its elite Quds force have played a central role in building the “ring of fire” against Israel, consisting of Iranian-backed terrorist militias 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 from the oppressive and destructive ayatollah regime.

"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 argued that the Jewish Maccabee fight for freedom against the powerful Greek empire commemorated in the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah, serves as a source of inspiration for all freedom-seeking nations worldwide.

"With a statement to human courage, to the will of a small but determined people who refused to bow to tyranny," Danon stated.

"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 the recent collapse of the Syrian 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 that Israeli soldiers are currently operating in the buffer zone between Israel and Syria.

Last night, the Israeli Air Force struck several strategic targets in Yemen belonging to the Iranian-backed Houthi terrorist militia. It was a 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 Iranian-backed terrorist organization Hamas in Gaza. In addition, the Houthis have also seriously disrupted international shipping in the Red Sea by attacking civilian vessels in the region.