Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian painted Iran as “the victim of terrorism” by the United States and Israel in his speech to the U.N. General Assembly (UNGA) on Wednesday. Naturally, he completely whitewashed Iran’s long history of supporting terrorism, and its current string of terrorist attacks on neighboring countries and civilian ships in the Strait of Hormuz.
“The United States president described us as terrorists. We have been the victims of terrorism. I come from an Iran in which our esteemed Supreme Leader was assassinated without any legal framework or reason,” he railed in his opening. Pezeshkian continued by accusing the United States and Israel of deliberately targeting civilians, including children, and claiming his regime has “only defended ourselves.” “We are not terrorists. Our innocent people have been the targets of cowardly attacks and aggressions imposed upon our country, and we defended ourselves with utmost strength,” he boasted.
