It was unexpected, but the advocates of generalized war, the Straussians, expelled from the governing bodies of the United States, have regrouped in intergovernmental organizations. To everyone’s surprise, they are present in the European Union, but especially in the United Nations and in the Contact Group on the Defense of Ukraine. Institutions dedicated to peace have been hijacked by the warmongers.
For nearly a year, President Donald Trump has been putting America back in order. He has reestablished the principles of equality before the law and merit-based promotion at the expense of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). He has slashed federal budgets for anything related to imperial spending and attempted to restore the military’s primary function: homeland defense.
At the same time, we all see how he is failing to achieve the peace he hoped for in Ukraine and Palestine. He is letting the Europeans fight not for Ukraine, but against Russia and Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition persisting in its program of a “Greater Israel,” that is, the annexation of its neighbors [ 1 ] .
However, we fail to see the worst of it: the Straussians, who held the upper hand under George Bush Jr., Barack Obama, and Joe Biden, are still not defeated. They have retreated into two intergovernmental organizations: NATO and the UN.
Outside NATO, they have taken control of the Contact Group on the Defence of Ukraine (formerly the Ramstein Group), which, since 9 September, no longer meets alternately at the US military base in Ramstein and at NATO headquarters in Mons-Brussels, but now also in London.
They, along with Ukrainian intelligence, organized drone flights over Western and Northern European airports. They then pushed for the delivery of German Patriot missile batteries to Ukraine, after secretly organizing the transfer of the first batteries from Israel.
They are still the ones who falsified the reports of the UN General Secretariat on the meetings of the Security Council on 19 and 26 September [ 2 ] . Contrary to these reports – which we were wrong to believe – the Security Council did not validate the return of sanctions against Iran. Moreover, it did not have the power to do so.
This summer, Germany, France, and the United Kingdom adopted a strange common position on the JCPoA, the nuclear agreement signed during the 5+1 negotiations with Iran. As a reminder, the United States led these negotiations ostensibly to end Iran’s military nuclear program and prevent the country from possessing an atomic bomb. After a round of discussions, the meetings were interrupted for a year while Washington and Tehran concluded a secret protocol about which we know nothing. Then the negotiations resumed and were immediately concluded by a treaty in Vienna. It is also important to remember that China and Russia, who participated in the negotiations, both attested that there had been no Iranian military nuclear program since 1988.
The JCPoA was validated by Security Council Resolution 2231 on July 20, 2015. As a result, the sanctions that the council had adopted against Iran were gradually lifted. However, by the following year, the United States, the United Kingdom, France, and Germany were questioning the agreement on the grounds that Iran was conducting research on missiles capable of delivering atomic bombs. Ultimately, on May 8, 2018, President Donald Trump (in his first term) decided to withdraw from the agreement on the grounds that it had not prevented Iran from increasing its military power in the Middle East. On September 19, 2020, Elliott Abrams, President Trump’s representative for Venezuela… and Iran, announced the reinstatement of US sanctions, allegedly by resorting to paragraph 11 of the resolution (” snapback mechanism “). However, neither Washington, nor London, nor Paris, nor Berlin have ever attempted to resort to paragraph 36 of the JCPoA for the simple reason that they would have had to admit that they were wrong.
However, as Iran, China and Russia have been repeatedly saying for the past five years, the JCPoA was included in Resolution 2231. Therefore, it is not possible to activate paragraph 11 of the resolution without taking into account the commitments signed in the JCPoA [ 3 ] . And these were initially violated by the Europeans and the United States. China stated: “The United States has re-imposed and continuously tightened unilateral sanctions against Iran and adopted maximum pressure measures. As a result, Iran has been unable to enjoy the economic benefits arising from the JCPOA and has been forced to no longer comply with part of its obligations under the JCPOA.” [ 4 ] Under international law, there is no doubt that the mechanism of resuming sanctions must be considered a unilateral punishment against Iran and an unfair measure.
These legal considerations are not quibbles. Respect for them is essential to international law. There is a hierarchy of standards and one cannot apply a provision of a text without first applying that of a previous text which is linked to it [ 5 ]
The fact that the UN administration falsified the minutes of two Security Council meetings, as evidenced by the verbatim transcripts of these meetings, leaves no room for doubt [ 6 ] . This administration is no longer impartial, but is playing into the hands of the opponents of peace in the Middle East.
Do not imagine that the war supporters only control the UN press service. The day after the publication of the falsified summaries of the Security Council meetings, the General Secretariat drafted a “note verbale” (reference: DPPA/SCAD/SCA/4/25(1)) instituting sanctions against Iran as if they had been approved [ 7 ] . Ambassador Vassily Nebenzia , the Russian Permanent Representative, almost choked. He immediately drafted a letter to the Secretary-General (reference S/2025/610) which he had distributed to the Security Council [ 8 ] .
We are going through a situation where the General Secretariat, abandoning the impartiality of its function and the principles of international law, has aligned itself with the legal interpretation of two states, permanent members of the council, France and the United Kingdom.
We remember that in 2016, during the war against Syria, the number 2 of the UN, the American Jeffrey Feltman, and his assistant, the German Volker Perthes, had drafted in their office in New York not a peace plan, but a plan for the capitulation of Syria [ 9 ] . I had commented on this document that I had analyzed for President Bashar al-Assad in my book Before Our Eyes . Taken aback by its content, most historians remained circumspect. The Syrian Arab Republic having been overthrown by the United Kingdom and Turkey. This secret document will be disclosed on the occasion of the publication of this book in German.
In 2016, the United Nations, formed in 1948 to “save succeeding generations from the scourge of war,” was able, contrary to its official purpose, to act to overthrow the Syrian Arab Republic. It implemented the plan A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Realm [10] , written by the Straussians for Benjamin Netanyahu in 1996. It can therefore, once again, act for war.
This is likely what President Donald Trump was referring to in his speech to the 80th session of the General Assembly on September 23 [ 11 ] . In that speech, he did not criticize the UN in the name of “American exceptionalism” [ 12 ] like other US presidents before him, but because it did not intervene in his peace efforts on different continents, in seven different conflicts.
We must understand what is happening today: the enemy is no longer Uncle Sam, it is still the Straussians [ 13 ] , now within the United Nations and the Contact Group on the Defense of Ukraine. They still want to lead us towards generalized war. They now rely on the Israeli revisionist Zionists [ 14 ] and the Ukrainian integral nationalists [ 15 ] .
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[ 1 ] “ Netanyahu and Nazism ”, by Thierry Meyssan, Voltaire Network , September 23, 2025.
[ 2 ] ” Security Council opposes continued easing of UN sanctions against Iran ” and ” Iranian nuclear: Security Council endorses return to UN sanctions against Iran by rejecting extension of 2015 resolution 2231 “, United Nations.
[ 3 ] “ Russian position on the British-German-French interpretation of the “snapback” ”, Voltaire Network, August 29, 2025.
[ 4 ] “ Chinese position on the British-German-French interpretation of the “snapback” ”, Voltaire Network , August 19, 2025.
[ 5 ] “ Iranian protest against accusations from the United States, France and Ukraine ”, by Amir Saeid Iravani, Voltaire Network , 5 August 2025. “ Russia’s warning to the UN Secretary-General ”, by Sergei Lavrov, Voltaire Network , 27 September 2025.
[ 6 ] Minutes of the meetings of the Security Council of 19 and 26 September 2025. United Nations S/PV.10001 and S/PV.10006 .
[ 7 ] “ General Secretariat reinstates sanctions against Iran ”, UN (General Secretariat), Voltaire Network , September 27, 2025.
[ 8 ] “ Russia asks the UN to withdraw its sanctions against Iran taken in violation of the decisions of the Security Council ”, by Vassily Nebenzia, Voltaire Network , September 29, 2025.
[ 9 ] “ Germany and the UN against Syria ”, by Thierry Meyssan, Al-Watan (Syria), Voltaire Network , January 28, 2016.
[ 10 ] “ A Clean Break: A New Strategy for Securing the Kingdom of Israel ,” by Institute for Advanced Strategic and Political Studies, Voltaire Network , July 1, 1996.
[ 11 ] “ Excerpt from Donald Trump’s speech at the 80th session of the UN General Assembly ”, by Donald Trump, Voltaire Network , September 23, 2025.
[ 12 ] Proceedings of the conference organized by the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy: American Exceptionalism and Human Rights , Michael Ignatieff, Princeton University Press (2005).
[ 13 ] “ Vladimir Putin declares war on the Straussians ”, by Thierry Meyssan, Voltaire Network , March 5, 2022. “ The Straussian coup in Israel ”, by Thierry Meyssan, Voltaire Network , March 7, 2023.
[ 14 ] “ The veil is torn: the hidden truths of Jabotinsky and Netanyahu ”, by Thierry Meyssan, Voltaire Network , January 23, 2024.
[ 15 ] “ Who are the Ukrainian integral nationalists? ”, by Thierry Meyssan, Voltaire Network , November 15, 2022.
