President Donald Trump took appropriate steps to deal with the threat of Iran. Next up on the list should be Iran’s boosters, including the United Nations, from which the U.S. should withdraw and consider evicting from New York City.

Here is how the director-general of the U.N., Antonio Guterres, framed the U.S. attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities: “I am gravely alarmed by the use of force by the United States against Iran today. This is a dangerous escalation in a region already on the edge – and a direct threat to international peace and security.” He added that “The only path forward is diplomacy.” This is despite Iran saying the day before the strikes that it would not negotiate and consistently using negotiations as a smokescreen while pursuing a nuclear weapon.

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This gets to the heart of the problem with the United Nations. It presupposes that all countries (except Israel) are equally responsible for conflicts and violence. Iran is the top funder of global terrorism, is a destabilizing force in the Middle East, and has publicly touted that it would eradicate another country (Israel) while in the process of trying to build nuclear weapons.

The U.S. gave $13 billion in taxpayer dollars to the United Nations in fiscal 2023. The U.S. gets shamed for trying to prevent a terror state from acquiring a nuclear weapon and is still expected to keep the U.N. gravy train flowing. The U.N. targets Israel for condemnations more than Iran and every other authoritarian regime combined, and is slavishly devoted to Chinese interests.

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The U.S. gains nothing from its membership in the U.N. or from the billions we pay to keep its bloated bureaucracy well-funded. The only thing the U.S. gains from having the U.N. headquartered in New York City is a few unique espionage options, though that cuts both ways. As my colleague Tom Rogan has written, “The assassination penchant of the Russian intelligence services bears note, as does the Iranian intelligence tradition to reconnoiter New York targets for prospective terrorist attacks.” The latter seems particularly notable right now.

No more American dollars should go to the United Nations, and the U.S. should not lend its legitimacy to its sham proceedings. If the espionage advantage is underwhelming, the U.S. should evict the U.N. and tell it to take its moral relativism and pandering elsewhere. We should then turn the U.N. headquarters in New York City into something that is actually beneficial to American interests and global human rights.