UN General Assembly
2021

If anyone thinks Iranian terror is confined to Israel, they are wrong. Let me share some news. Just this year, Iran made operational a new deadly terror unit — a start-up with swarms of killer unarmed aerial vehicles (UAVs) armed with lethal weapons that can attack any place at any time. They plan to blanket the skies of the Middle East with that lethal force. Iran has already used those deadly UAVs — known as Shahed-136 — to attack Saudi Arabia, American targets in Iraq and civilian ships at sea, most recently killing a United Kingdom citizen and a Romanian. Iran plans to arm its proxies in Yemen, Iraq, Syria and Lebanon with hundreds, and eventually thousands, of those deadly UAVs. We can ignore that, but experience tells us that what starts in the Middle East does not stop there.