Trump likely ‘smirked’ as 'crass' Iranian president lashed out at US in UN speech: expert

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian’s sharp rebuke of Washington at the United Nations would have drawn little more than a "smirk" from President Donald Trump, who knows he "holds the cards," a foreign policy expert told Fox News Digital on Wednesday.The assessment came after Pezeshkian and Trump addressed the U.N.

General Assembly in New York from the same podium within 24 hours of each other, trading sharp rhetoric as tensions between Washington and Tehran continue to mount."Trump understands he holds the cards, and he may not even have paid much attention to what the Iranian president was saying," Behnam Ben Taleblu, a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), told Fox News Digital.Pezeshkian accused the United States and Israel of attacking Iran while portraying his country as the victim of aggression.THE TOP MOMENTS FROM IRAN PRESIDENT’S TENSE VISIT TO US SOIL AS WAR RAGES President of Iran Masoud Pezeshkian holds a picture, which he says is from the Minab school that was hit by an airstrike, as he addresses the 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly at U.N. Headquarters on September 23, 2026 in New York City.

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