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UN: Iranian President's speech, "We are victims of terrorism"

Iranian President Massoud Pezeshkian said on Wednesday 23 September that his country had been "victim of terrorism", referring to the US military offensive and Israel against the Islamic Republic of Iran. Speaking before the United Nations General Assembly, the leader referred, inter alia, to former Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, "assassed without justification and legal framework".

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Iran will 'never bend at the knee', Pezeshkian tells UN in defiant wartime address

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian gave a defiant wartime address at the UN on Wednesday accusing the US of terrorism in his country and saying Iran would not "bend at the knee". But as Pezeshkian called for diplomacy, Iranian officials downplayed their talks with US counterparts on the sidelines of the gerenal assembly as "not anything new".

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Iran’s Pezeshkian tells UN his country is ‘victim’ of US ‘terrorism’

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has hit back at US President Donald Trump’s speech in his address to the UN General Assembly. He opened by showing images of Iranian civilians killed in US strikes, saying they demonstrated the impact of US and Israeli military action against Iran. During his speech, the US delegation walked out of the General Assembly hall. France 24 International Affairs Editor Kethevane Gorjestani has more.

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From death row to cryptos: Babak Zanjani, Iran's key man to circumvent sanctions

Architect of the circumvention of the Iranian oil embargo, billionaire Babak Zanjani was sentenced to death in 2016 in a corruption case before making an unexpected return in grace. Today, Washington suspects him to be at the head of a cryptocurrency platform managing payments received for transit through the Strait of Ormuz.

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UN General Assembly to discuss war, climate and AI

World leaders are heading to New York for the world's biggest diplomatic gathering: the UN General Assembly. Throughout the week, attention will turn to the war in Iran, climate change and the race to rein in AI. FRANCE 24's Monte Francis and Theresa Squatrito from the London School of Economics discuss what to expect.

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Iran - United States: Tehran sets conditions for reopening Ormuz

Iran started talks with the United States through a Qatari mediator in New York on Wednesday, 23 September, and set out certain conditions. In particular, Tehran called for an end to the war on all fronts and for a halt to what it calls "acts of aggression" on the part of Washington, said the spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Ministry. The explanations of Bruno Daroux, an international columnist in France 24.