The Iranian president accuses us, Israel of “wild assault” in the UN speech

As Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian Tuesday, said its first address to the United Nations General Assembly, accusing the United States and Israel of “wild assault”, thousands of Iranian Americans and dissidents massaged outside the building to denounce what they called the UN hypocrisy for having given Tehran leaders a platform.

Inside the room, Pezeshkian said June US Airstrikes sur Iran Nuclear installations were equivalent to a “serious treason of diplomacy” and a violation of international law. He said that attacks had killed civilians, scientists and intellectuals, while insisting that Iran “has never sought weapons of mass destruction”.

Outside the UN, however, the message was very different. The demonstrators waving the Iranian flags and the holding of signs said that Pezeshkian did not represent the Iranian people.

The president of Iran accuses us of “serious betrayal” with nuclear strikes in the speech of UNGA

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian addresses the 80th United Nations General Assembly at the UN Headquarters in New York on September 24, 2025. (Jeenah Moon / Reuters)

Mitra Samani, a former political prisoner detained for four years in the notorious of the prison of Evin de Tehran in the early 1980s, traveled from Los Angeles to attend. “We are here to say that the UN siege does not belong to these murderous regime agents. It is up to the Iranian people and their representatives, and we believe that it is the National Council for the Resistance of Iran,” she told Fox News Digital.

Samani said she had attended the rally each year for three decades. “I promised myself when I was released from this dungeon that I would be the voice of my friends that I lost. This is why I am here every year.”

Nasser Sharif, president of the American Iranian community in California, said thousands of 40 states participate in the demonstration. “We are here to support the Iranian resistance, the National Council for the Resistance of Iran, and to condemn the regime of its crimes against humanity,” Sharif told Fox News Digital.

The demonstrators gather outside the UN during the speech of the Iranian President of Pezeshkian at 2025 Unga. (Alireza Jafarzadeh)

He added that the movement supports the plan of a free secular democratic republic in Iran: “We ask the American administration to put pressure on the regime and the side of the Iranian people and their desire for democratic change.”

Alireza Jafarzadeh, deputy director of the American office of the National Council for Resistance of Iran, described the rally as “an impressive show of force”.

“Thousands of demonstrators supported the reversal of the Iranian regime by the Iranian people, without the need for foreign boots on the ground or to provide money and weapons,” he said.

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Members of the organization of Iranian American communities (OPCs) and supporters of the Iranian resistance come together at Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza for the “Rallye Free Iran NY in 2025” September 23, 2025 in New York. (Stephanie Keith / Getty Images)

Jafarzadeh also criticized the UN for having given Tehran a platform despite the repeated convictions of his human rights file. “It is appalling to see the first executioner in the world playing a role in any body of the United Nations dealing with human rights. It is like appointing a serial killer as a judge to govern his own murders.”

Richard Goldberg, principal advisor to the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), said that the will of the UN to raise Iran reflects “an alternative reality”.

“The UN is very similar to the Netflix program” Stranger Things “. You cross the door, the characters are the same, but it is a horrible alternative reality where a tyrannical regime, oppressive of women and nuclear weapons, can serve as a leader in human rights, women’s rights and nuclear non-proliferation organizations”, said Goldberg.

He added that Pezeshkian arrived in New York “without anything – no popular support at home and no nuclear weapons program to scare the rest of the world”, while facing imminent United Nations sanctions that could destabilize the economy of Iran.

Behnam Ben Taleblu, principal director of the Iran program of FDD, said that the speech was “short but not soft”.

The demonstrators gather outside the UN during the speech of the Iranian President of Pezeshkian at 2025 Unga. (Alireza Jafarzadeh)

“Unfortunately, these things are expected from the United Nations with regard to Iran. Although the mission of teaching facts on Iran Languis due to the lack of funding and staff, the regime continues to be offered a platform to spit its invented and propaganda,” he told Fox News Digital.

Taleblu highlighted the irony of Iran’s leadership roles in international organizations: “Can there be something more ironic than the Islamic Republic of Iran, which has long been a proliferator and in search of a nuclear weapon, as vice-president of the IAEA?”

He added that Pezeshkian’s remarks had been overshadowed by recent comments from the supreme leader of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. “While Pezeshkian and (Iranian negotiator Abbas) Araghchi was in New York to try to wedge and prevent Snapback, Khamenei did not chew the words when there was no negotiation with America. ‘Supreme leader’ ‘is a title supposed to be taken rather after all.”

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US President Donald Trump The Middle East envoy Steve Witkoff said Washington spoke to Iran on Wednesday and that the United States had the “desire” to carry out a permanent solution to the dispute. But the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs told Reuters on Thursday that the United States saying that it wanted a diplomatic solution to the Iranian nuclear program was a “deception”.

“America’s demand for a desire for diplomacy is nothing other than flagrant deception and contradiction; one cannot simultaneously bomb a country while engaging in diplomatic negotiations and speaking of diplomacy,” said the spokesman for the ministry Esmaeil Baghaei.