Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian used his handle to the U.N. Normal Meeting (UNGA) on Tuesday to assault Israel on behalf of Iran’s terrorist shoppers in Hamas – an unsurprising, however maybe barely disappointing, tirade from an Iranian second-in-command who billed himself as a extra compassionate, reformist chief.
Pezeshkian spent a couple of minutes touting his platform of “reform, nationwide empathy, constructive engagement with the world, and financial improvement,” and selling Shia Islam as a faith of “peace, justice, and common tolerance,” however then started reciting Hamas propaganda about Israel’s supposedly murderous marketing campaign in Gaza.
Pezeshkian railed in opposition to the Israelis for referring to their marketing campaign of “genocide, the killing of kids, warfare crimes, and state terrorism” as “authentic self-defense.”
“They label hospitals, kindergartens, and faculties as ‘authentic navy targets.’ They label the freedom-loving and courageous individuals all over the world who protest in opposition to their genocide as ‘anti-Semitic.’ They label an oppressed individuals, who’ve stood up in opposition to seven a long time of occupation and humiliation, as ‘terrorists,’” he thundered.
Iran is the world’s high state sponsor of terrorism by a large margin however, in Pezeshkian’s twisted worldview, his nation merely helps “fashionable liberation actions.”
“We now have been siding with the individuals internationally, who’ve flooded the streets in outrage in opposition to Israeli atrocities. We condemn Israeli crimes in opposition to humanity,” he mentioned.
Like different terrorist-supporting leaders who spoke at UNGA, Pezeshkian made no point out by any means of the unspeakable atrocities perpetrated by Hamas in opposition to Israeli civilians – together with girls, kids, and infants – on October 7. He studiously averted mentioning Hamas’ use of human shields, its terror tunnels, its prison abuse of hostages, and its penchant for placing weapons in civilian places.
Pezeshkian painted Iran as a helpless sufferer of “threats, warfare, occupation, and sanctions.”
“Iran has by no means initiated a warfare. It has solely defended itself heroically in opposition to exterior aggression, inflicting the aggressors to remorse their actions,” he claimed.
In fact, Iran consistently wages aggressive warfare in opposition to its neighbors and the West, but it surely makes use of cutouts and proxies just like the terrorist Shiite militias of Iraq, the Hezbollah terrorist group that has laid waste to Lebanon with Tehran’s assist, and the Houthi pirates of Yemen, who’ve carried out reckless assaults in opposition to worldwide delivery within the Pink Sea.
Pezehskian talked about none of Iran’s vicious proxy forces in his speech, nor did he settle for accountability for arming and coaching them.
“The Islamic Republic of Iran seeks to safeguard its personal safety, to not create insecurity for others. We would like peace for all, and search no warfare or quarrel with anybody,” the Iranian president claimed, at roughly the identical time as reviews have been breaking that Iran brokered a take care of Russia to provide the Houthis with extra harmful anti-ship missiles.
Pezeshkian did briefly point out Russia, however solely within the context of claiming that Iran desires “lasting peace and safety” for each the Russians and Ukrainians.
“The Islamic Republic of Iran opposes warfare and emphasizes the pressing want to finish navy hostilities in Ukraine. We assist all peaceable options and imagine that dialogue is the one strategy to resolve this disaster,” he mentioned.
Pezeshkian criticized former U.S. President Donald Trump for withdrawing from the 2015 nuclear deal, formally referred to as the Joint Complete Plan of Motion (JCPOA), with out mentioning the Iranian dishonest that prompted Trump to withdraw.
Pezeshkian additionally averted mentioning latest complaints by the the Worldwide Atomic Power Company (IAEA) that Iran has ceased cooperating with its investigators whereas it races to extend its already treaty-busting stockpile of enriched uranium.
As an alternative, the Iranian chief blasted sanctions as inhumane, demanded the U.S. unilaterally raise all of them, and mentioned his authorities is able to “have interaction with JCPOA contributors.”
Pezeshkian tossed in a grievance about Trump ordering the liquidation of Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Gen. Qassem Soleimani in January 2020, with out mentioning that Soleimani’s whole job was to destabilize different governments within the Center East – the very exercise Pezeshkian insisted Iran by no means engages in – or that Soleimani was killed in Baghdad whereas within the midst of organizing terrorist assaults on Individuals with the help of Iraq’s Shiite militias.
The Iranian chief pitched his closing remarks as a direct assertion to the American individuals, implicitly both pleading with them, or threatening them, to not ship Trump again to the White Home.
“To be able to construct a greater future world, Iran stands ready to foster significant financial, social, political, and safety partnerships with international powers and its neighbors based mostly on equal footing,” he claimed.
“The suitable response to this message from Iran is to not impose extra sanctions, however to meet current obligations to take away sanctions, benefiting the Iranian individuals and therefore laying the foundations for extra constructive agreements,” he concluded.
