Resolution 2817
UN Security Council resolution condemning Iran's Gulf and Jordan attacks; cited in Qatar's compensation claim.
Two Gulf states have now cited Resolution 2817 to back individual claims against Iran: Qatar on 21 July, the UAE on 13 August 2026, each converting the shared 10 March condemnation into its own evidentiary record.
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What does UN Security Council Resolution 2817 condemn, and who has cited it since?
Timeline for Resolution 2817
Mentioned in: Three tankers hit, one statement twice
Iran Conflict 2026Mentioned in: UAE names IRGC over two ADNOC ships
Iran Conflict 2026Mentioned in: Qatar files a UN claim against Iran
Iran Conflict 2026Mentioned in: Hamas: stop hitting Gulf neighbours
Iran Conflict 2026Mentioned in: Record UN resolution condemns Iran
Iran Conflict 2026Background
UN Security Council Resolution 2817 condemns Iran's attacks on Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the UAE and Jordan, and demands an immediate end to them. It was adopted on 10 March 2026, passing 13-0-2 with Russia and China abstaining rather than vetoing.
The resolution was sponsored by Bahrain on behalf of the Gulf Cooperation Council states and Jordan, and drew 135 co-sponsors, the most of any resolution in UN history, surpassing the 134 co-sponsors of the 2014 Ebola resolution.
Its significance lies less in enforcement, which the text does not provide for, than in the paper trail it creates. By naming the seven states Iran is accused of attacking, it gives each of them a Council document they can cite individually when they later make their own claims.
Resolution 2817 keeps gaining citations
On 13 August the UAE Foreign Ministry named Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps directly over an attack on two ADNOC vessels, calling it an act of piracy and citing Resolution 2817 as the record of Iran's prior conduct. It was the second Gulf state within weeks to reach for the resolution's text rather than draft new language of its own.
Qatar had already done so on 21 July, filing formal letters with the Security Council that catalogued three Iranian attacks since 7 July and demanded compensation, citing Resolution 2817 alongside its own Article 51 self-defence reservation. Both filings turn the resolution's shared 10 March condemnation into evidence a single state can use for its own claim, the use its 135 co-sponsors built it for.
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