Iran vs United States: UN Voting Alignment
How often do Iran and United States vote the same way at the UN General Assembly? Agreement over every shared roll-call vote since 1946, by year, decade, and topic — plus the resolutions where they split.
Overall agreement
23.8%
of 5,873 shared UN General Assembly votes since 1946
Agreement by year
Agreement by decade
| Decade | Agreement | Shared votes |
|---|---|---|
| 1940 | 47.2% | 246 |
| 1950 | 57.8% | 403 |
| 1960 | 44.6% | 496 |
| 1970 | 37.2% | 940 |
| 1980 | 10.3% | 1,291 |
| 1990 | 18.1% | 745 |
| 2000 | 10.8% | 879 |
| 2010 | 13.3% | 872 |
| 2020 | 0.0% | 1 |
Agreement by topic
| Topic | Agreement | Shared votes |
|---|---|---|
| Israel–Palestine | 8.1% | 996 |
| Nuclear weapons | 18.5% | 836 |
| Disarmament | 22.0% | 1,064 |
| Colonialism | 13.5% | 939 |
| Human rights | 13.8% | 967 |
| Economic development | 22.0% | 722 |
Biggest splits
| Resolution | Date | Iran | United States |
|---|---|---|---|
A/RES/ES-10/19 Status of Jerusalem : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly | 2017-12-21 | yes | no |
A/RES/72/191 Situation of human rights in the Syrian Arab Republic : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly | 2017-12-19 | no | yes |
A/RES/72/189 Situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly | 2017-12-19 | no | yes |
A/RES/72/84 Work of the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People and Other Arabs of the Occupied Territories : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly | 2017-12-07 | yes | no |
A/RES/72/43 Implementation of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly | 2017-12-04 | no | yes |
A/RES/72/31 Taking forward multilateral nuclear disarmament negotiations : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly | 2017-12-04 | yes | no |
A/RES/72/15 Jerusalem : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly | 2017-11-30 | yes | no |
A/RES/72/14 Peaceful settlement of the question of Palestine : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly | 2017-11-30 | yes | no |
A/RES/72/13 Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly | 2017-11-30 | yes | no |
A/RES/72/12 Special information programme on the question of Palestine of the Department of Public Information of the Secretariat : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly | 2017-11-30 | yes | no |
Frequently asked questions
How often do Iran and United States vote together at the UN?
Iran and United States voted the same way in 23.8% of 5,873 shared UN General Assembly votes since 1946.
Do Iran and United States agree on human rights votes?
On human rights resolutions, Iran and United States mostly disagree: they voted the same way in 13.8% of 967 shared human-rights votes at the UN General Assembly.
When did Iran and United States last disagree at the UN?
Among their biggest recent splits, on 2017-12-21 Iran voted "yes" and United States voted "no" on A/RES/ES-10/19 (Status of Jerusalem : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly).