'Terrorist' or 'victims of terrorism'? Iran's Pezeshkian takes Trump head-on at UNGA
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian took the UNGA stage on Wednesday and turned his fire on Donald Trump on American soil.Referring to Trump's remarks about the Islamic Republic a day earlier, Pezeshkian hit back at the US president's labelling of Iran as "terrorist".He said Iranians were in fact "victims of terrorism" and condemned US attacks on Iran.“I come from an Iran where, in truth, they bombed a school,” he added, referring to the US attack on Iran’s Minab primary school on the first day of the war.Pezeshkian also held up photographs of an Iranian school and sports complex, telling the international forum that the US had bombed the Islamic Republic and that Iranian children had perished in American-Israeli strikes.The Iranian president held up a photograph of Iranian schoolgirls killed in the attack on Minab.Pezeshkian also spoke about the killing of Iran's longest-serving Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, on the first day…
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