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

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Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian delivered a defiant wartime address to the United Nations, accusing the US of terrorism and asserting Iran would never submit. Despite calls for diplomacy, Iranian officials minimized reports of new negotiations with US counterparts during the General Assembly.

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".