NewzAddressing Trump directly, Pezeshkian said the US leader “must know that the resistance of the Iranian people will only increase in the face of sanctions, increased pressure, increased bullying. We will never bow our head[s] or bend at the knee”. Israel and the US attacked Iran in February amid negotiations over its nuclear programme.
The war has dragged on, with two ceasefires collapsing, and pulled Arab Gulf states into the conflict, as well as Yemen and Lebanon. Pezeshkian began his speech holding a photo of Iran’s 86-year-old Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who was assassinated on 28 February in the opening salvo of the US-Israeli attack. He also shared photographs of Iranian children killed by US air strikes and their graves.
US strikes on the Minab elementary school killed at least 150 people, including approximately 120 children. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); A US strike that discharged thousands of tungsten pellets also targeted a sports complex in the southern Iranian city of Lamerd. A UN fact-finding mission said earlier this month that there were “reasonable grounds” to believe the strikes amounted to war crimes.
Pezeshkian defends nuclear programme Pezeshkian reaffirmed Iran’s denial of long-standing US claims that Tehran sponsors terrorism. “Those who are terrorists, and train and protect terrorists, describe us as such. “America and Israel attacked us.” “For the past two centuries, Iran has not attacked any territory or any country,” he said.
(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push(… Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian projected defiance in his speech at the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday, saying the Islamic Republic would not surrender or give up its nuclear program in the face of President Trump’s military and economic pressure. “He must know that the resistance of the Iranian people will only increase in the...
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