Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian gave a stirring and truthful speech at the UN General Assembly today. He began by saying, “The United States President described us as terrorists,” and he then gave graphic details of the terrorism and mass murder of both leaders and innocents imposed on his nation and in Palestine. He described the slaughter of the school girls and youth at a playground. “They [U.S. and Israelis] came into surrounding territories and targeted our universities, our healthcare centers, our schools, our hospitals, our infrastructures—all of it against international law…. Those who are terrorists and train and protect terrorists describe us as such. We have only defended ourselves….”

He added: “Yes, they did hit us, but we did not bend the knee. We did not bow our head. We responded, but we did not hit civilian populations.”

“In Gaza,” he said, “over 80,000 innocent civilians have been murdered, brutally murdered. Hundreds of thousands have been displaced. They [U.S. and Israelis] are committing genocide by using the so-called technologies that they have at their disposal. Then they label others as terrorists.”

“We live in a world in which the powerful, instead of thinking about humanity, justice, fairness, and democracy, seem to be the protectors and creators of instability and destruction.”