Iran's president, Masoud Pezeshkian, struck a defiant tone at the UN on Wednesday, vowing that Tehran would never 'bend at the knee.' He accused Washington of 'terrorism' for assassinating former supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei at the start of the war. Pezeshkian held up a photograph of the dead leader and insisted Tehran had never started a war. His speech came after President Donald Trump told the UN he was weighing whether to 'annihilate' Iran but also hailed renewed talks.
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