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Hillel Neuer’s address to the United Nations Human Rights Council, Special Session on Iran, January 23, 2026:
Mr. President,
Doctors in Iran estimate 20,000 protesters killed; and 330,000 injured. These are numbers that defy comprehension. These are crimes against humanity.
So today’s session is welcome. But let’s be honest: it is too little, and too late.
The Iranian people have a right to know: Why, for over three weeks, did this Council say nothing?
We ask the 87 UN rights experts, the world’s “early warning mechanism.” For over two weeks, why were you silent? Only on January 13th was there a statement. And out of 87, only five of you signed it.
Day after day, we pleaded for action. Five days into the repression, after killings of protesters, I asked Agnes Callamard, the former UN Rapporteur who now heads Amnesty International: Why are you silent?
In January 2020, when the US eliminated IRGC terror chief Qassem Soleimani, she rushed within hours to condemn it. Why no urgency when innocent Iranian protesters are massacred?
And beyond this room, we ask the media, Hollywood celebrities, campus protesters — those who know how to mobilize world opinion — why are you silent?
The answer is uncomfortable but clear. The Iran protest movement shatters a cherished narrative. A people rising against Islamist tyranny does not fit the ideology—and so it is ignored.
To all of you, we say: The cost of your silence was Iranian lives.
It is time to choose: do everything to protect the people of Iran—or your failed worldview.
History is watching.
I said to UNHRC: “We ask the U.N., the media, celebrities, campus activists: why are you silent? The answer is uncomfortable but clear. The Iran protest movement shatters a cherished narrative. A people rising against Islamist tyranny does not fit the ideology—so it is ignored.” pic.twitter.com/HkBm0EnqWY
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) January 25, 2026
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UN Watch Urges Designation of IRGC on EU Terror List
January 18, 2026
On January 18th, Hillel Neuer traveled to Paris to attend a rally in support of the Iranian protestors rising up against the Islamic regime. While there, Neuer called on the French Government to stop opposing the designation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps on the EU terrorist list.
BREAKING: 🇮🇹 Italy drops opposition to designating Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps on the EU terror list. This leaves you both as the last holdouts, 🇫🇷@EmmanuelMacron & 🇪🇸@sanchezcastejon. https://t.co/icdPCqeRhw
— Hillel Neuer (@HillelNeuer) January 26, 2026
Shame on Brazil and South Africa For Refusing to Condemn Iran Massacre
January 22, 2026
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On January 22nd, Hillel Neuer spoke outside of the U.N. office in Geneva — home to the U.N. Human Rights Council — after we successfully shamed the Council into holding a special session on the urgent situation in Iran. Neuer called out the nations which opposed the session while putting the Islamic regime on notice of his upcoming speech on the floor of the Council.
“I Will Always Stand With Iran” — Hillel Neuer at U.N. Rally
January 23, 2026
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Immediately after his speech on the floor of the U.N. Human Rights Council in which he called out the global inaction to stop the Islamic regime’s massacre of Iranian protestors, Hillel Neuer spoke at a rally out the United Nations in Geneva to reaffirm his support for the Iranian people in their fight for freedom.
