Milan, 23 Sept. (LaPresse/AP) – “Yesterday, Trump called us terrorists. We are victims of terrorism. I come from an Iran where our Supreme Leader was assassinated without any legal basis or reason. I come from an Iran where a school was bombed.” This is how the President of Iran, Masoud Pezeshkian, began his address to the United Nations General Assembly, referring to the killing of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and the massacre at the school in Minab which took place in the early days of the war. “Do you see these children? These children died under the bombs dropped by weapons used by the United States and Israel,” declared the Iranian President. “We were merely defending ourselves; we are not terrorists,” “our innocent people have been the target of cowardly attacks and acts of aggression against our country, and we have defended ourselves with the utmost force. America and Israel attacked us,” he added. The US delegation left the chamber during the speech.
Pezeshkian at the UN: “We are victims of US terrorism”
Milan, 23 Sept. (LaPresse/AP) – “Yesterday, Trump called us terrorists. We are victims of terrorism. I come from an Iran where our Supreme Leader was assassinated without any legal basis or reason. I come from an Iran where a school was bombed.” This is how the President of Iran, Masoud Pezeshkian, began his address to the United Nations General Assembly, referring to the killing of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and the massacre at the school in Minab which took place in the early days of the war. “Do you see these children? These children died under the bombs dropped by weapons used by the United States and Israel,” declared the Iranian President. “We were merely defending ourselves; we are not terrorists,” “our innocent people have been the target of cowardly attacks and acts of aggression against our country, and we have defended ourselves with the utmost force. America and Israel attacked us,” he added. The US delegation left the chamber during the speech.