Iranian President Changed UN Speech After Trump Spoke
The sole US delegate exited during President Masoud Pezeshkian's address Iran's leader on Wednesday said he scrapped his planned UN remarks
The sole US delegate exited during President Masoud Pezeshkian's address Iran's leader on Wednesday said he scrapped his planned UN remarks after hearing President Trump threaten to "annihilate" his country the day prior, the Washington Post reports. In an address to the UN General Assembly, President Masoud Pezeshkian held up photos of children killed in a school strike in southern Iran and said, "the United States president described us as terrorists.
We have been the victims of terrorism. You see these children?
First reported by Newser.
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