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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Maira Butt

Iranian president’s defiant UN speech accuses US of ‘terrorism’ and flouting international law

Iran’s president Masoud Pezeshkian launched a defiant attack on the United States and Israel at the UN, the day after President Donald Trump threatened to “annihilate” the Islamic Republic.

The US leader warned he could send Iran to “hell” during his combative address to the United Nations General Assembly Tuesday, seven months after the war he started alongside Israel’s Benjamin Netanyahu.

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