NEW YORK — In an uncompromising and deeply resonant address to the 81st United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) on Wednesday, Iranian President Dr. Masoud Pezeshkian delivered a blistering indictment of Global Arrogance, piercing the veil of Western hypocrisy while honouring the memory of the martyred Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Sayyed Ali Khamenei.
Addressing a tense assembly just months after the joint US-Israeli terror strikes in February that assassinated the Supreme Leader, President Pezeshkian stood resolute before the world’s diplomats. In a powerful visual rebuke to the architects of that crime, he held up a photograph of the late Imam Khamenei, declaring to the silent hall that he was “assassinated without any legal framework or reason” by a criminal alliance. He further displayed haunting images of innocent Palestinian and Iranian children martyred by US-Israeli bombardments, forcing the assembly to confront the blood-soaked reality of Western imperialism.
“Those Who Are Terrorists Call Us Terrorists”
The address opened as a direct, searing rebuttal to US President Donald Trump, who a day prior had audaciously branded the Islamic Republic the “number one sponsor of terror” and threatened to “annihilate” Iran.
President Pezeshkian dismantled the projection of the American empire with surgical precision. “Those who are terrorists, and who train terrorists, describe us using that word,” he countered, laying bare the ultimate moral bankruptcy of an empire that equates self-defence and regional resistance with terrorism, while funding and arming genocidal proxy regimes.
He then exposed the glaring contradictions of the so-called “rules-based international order”—a framework engineered by the US and its allies to persecute independent nations while shielding rogue entities.
“The atomic bomb and other weapons of mass destruction in this region are in the hands of the Israeli regime; yet inspections are demanded of Iran!” President Pezeshkian stated, highlighting the absurdity of a system that harasses a committed signatory of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT). He noted that the Zionist entity possesses nuclear weapons, refuses to join the NPT, and has never permitted a single international inspector into the occupied territories, yet it is rewarded by its American patrons with billions of dollars in free weapons and absolute immunity to bomb any capital it chooses.
“I repeat: the nuclear bomb is in Israel, but the inspectors are in Iran! Israel kills, but Iran is sanctioned!” he declared, summarising the tragic paradox of a geopolitical landscape held hostage by Western double standards.
Genocide in Gaza and the Unbreakable Will of the Resistance
Turning his focus to the bleeding wound of the Ummah, President Pezeshkian condemned the ongoing genocide in the Gaza Strip, where over 80,000 innocent civilians have been brutally murdered by the Zionist entity using Western-supplied weaponry.
“They are committing genocide... then they label others as terrorists,” he stated. Addressing the Palestinian people, he reaffirmed the Islamic Republic’s unwavering commitment to the Axis of Resistance, declaring that the struggle against occupation, aggression, and injustice will continue. “If it is weakened in one form, it will reemerge in others, perhaps stronger still. What other choice do they have? Succumb to bullying?”
“We Did Not Bend the Knee”
Referencing the devastating US-Israeli strikes on Iranian soil earlier this year, the President delivered a message of unyielding national resilience that sent shockwaves through the Western delegations.
“Yes, they did hit us, but we did not bend the knee; we did not bow our heads,” Pezeshkian proclaimed, emphasising that while Iran defended its sovereignty, it maintained its moral high ground by refusing to target civilian populations, unlike its barbaric adversaries.
He also addressed the domestic front, highlighting the millions of Iranians who have taken to the streets every night for the past seven months. Far from the regime-change narratives pushed by Western media, Pezeshkian portrayed these mass gatherings as a profound expression of national unity and support for the homeland against US-Israeli attempts to breed internal disruption.
Concluding his historic address, President Pezeshkian issued a final, chilling warning to the White House: “The resistance of the Iranian people will only increase in the face of sanctions, pressure, and bullying. Iran must be understood by Mr. Trump.”
In a hall designed to enforce the consensus of the powerful, the President of the Islamic Republic stood as a solitary pillar of defiance, proving that despite assassination, war, and economic warfare, the spirit of the Resistance remains unbroken.
Reference: PressTv