Iranian President Responds to Trump at UN: "We Have Been Victims of Terrorism"
Massoud Pezeshkian stated before the General Assembly that Iran had suffered from terrorism, referring to the American-Israeli offensive against his country.
Iranian President Massoud Pezeshkian on Wednesday responded to the United Nations General Assembly in response to the US president's remarks the day before, saying that Iran had been a "victim of terrorism", in reference to the military offensive led by the United States and Israel against the Islamic Republic.
The intervention comes amid heightened tensions between Tehran and Washington, marked by US-Israeli military operations targeting Iranian sites in recent months. The Iranian president has sought to portray his country as the party that has suffered aggression rather than as an actor threatening regional security.
The US president's remarks the day before at the UN, to which Pezeshkian responded, were not detailed in full, but were part of the broader tense exchanges between the two leaders over Iran's nuclear programme and recent military operations.
The UN platform was used by several Middle Eastern leaders this week to set out their respective positions on regional tensions, without any concrete diplomatic progress being announced at the end of these exchanges.
There was no immediate official White House reaction to Pezeshkian's remarks.
Sources
- Le président iranien répond à Trump devant l'ONU : "nous avons été victimes du terrorisme" — France 24 — Français
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