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As António Guterres opens his final year as U.N. chief, the press corps turns the daily briefing into a test of credibility — pressing officials on Iran contacts, Gaza demolitions and internal accountability. The result is a sharper, more skeptical exchange that exposes the widening gap between diplomatic language and on-the-ground realities.

A routine U.N. briefing turned into a sharp exchange as journalists pressed officials on Gaza’s fragile ceasefire, rising violence in Iran and the politics of humanitarian funding. The questioning exposed growing skepticism toward diplomatic language and highlighted the widening gap between official optimism and realities on the ground.

The president of the U.N. General Assembly warned Wednesday that the multilateral system faces an existential moment as she fielded sharp questioning from journalists on the next secretary-general race, U.N. funding shortfalls and Israel’s restrictions on UNRWA. The sustained exchange revealed a press corps increasingly focused not on ceremony, but on whether the institution’s processes still carry real credibility.

At the Jan. 13 U.N. briefing, journalists sharply challenged officials over Iran’s protest death toll, Trump’s rhetoric, and the limits of U.N. action, turning the room into a test of credibility. Grim updates from Ukraine, Sudan and Gaza underscored the scale of global crises — and the widening gap between humanitarian need and political leverage.