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Iran’s big UN message to Trump: Pezeshkian says America does not understand a country it seeks to 'bully'

Iran's president said Wednesday that his people have been 'victims of terrorism' by the United States, delivering a rare wartime speech at U

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Iran’s big UN message to Trump: Pezeshkian says America does not understand a country it seeks to 'bully'
Iran’s big UN message to Trump: Pezeshkian says America does not understand a country it seeks to 'bully'

Iran's president said Wednesday that his people have been 'victims of terrorism' by the United States, delivering a rare wartime speech at U.N. General Assembly a day after President Donald Trump said he could "annihilate" the Islamic republic.President Masoud Pezeshkian held up photos of the late Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and the more than 150 school children killed on the first days of the war."We have only defended ourselves.

We are not terrorists," Pezeshkian said at the General Assembly. "Our innocent people have been the targets of cowardly attacks and aggressions imposed upon our country.

First reported by The Times of India.

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