Iran will never bend – Pezeshkian tells Trump

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has warned that his state volition not springiness successful to unit from the United States, saying Iran volition ne'er “bend astatine the knee”.

Speaking astatine the United Nations on Wednesday, Pezeshkian took a beardown presumption against Washington and Israel successful his archetypal code to the planetary assemblage since the 2 countries launched an all-out warfare against Iran.

He accused the United States of “terrorism” implicit the sidesplitting of Iran’s erstwhile Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, astatine the opening of the conflict.

During his speech, Pezeshkian displayed a photograph of Khamenei and said Iran had ne'er been the state that started a war.

His comments came a time aft US President Donald Trump told the UN that helium was considering whether to “annihilate” Iran. Trump, however, besides welcomed renewed discussions betwixt US and Iranian negotiators aimed astatine resolving the conflict.

Pezeshkian did not notation the negotiations successful his speech.

“(Trump) indispensable cognize that the absorption of the Iranian radical volition lone summation successful the look of sanctions, accrued pressure, accrued bullying. We volition ne'er bow our caput oregon crook astatine the knee,” helium said.

The Iranian president besides addre...