Iran President Pezeshkian at the UN:
"Those who are terrorists and train terrorists tell us that we are terrorists."
"For two hundred years, Iran has not attacked any country. For two hundred years, we have always defended ourselves."
"They bombed and killed these children, with weapons supplied by America and Israel. They were guilty of nothing. They had committed no crime."
"In Gaza, they murdered more than eighty thousand innocent people."
"Then they say others are terrorists, these are the ones causing instability -- are we the ones causing instability?"
"Anyone they want to destroy, they label a terrorist."
"Palestine remains a wound on the body of the conscience of the international community, and Gaza remains a symbol of the failure of international mechanisms to prevent the suffering of civilians."
"Israel murders thousands of people in Gaza every week. But Iran was bombed while at the negotiating table."
"Yet Israel receives billions of dollars in free weapons as a reward, and it is licensed to bomb any capital it wishes."
"The nuclear bombs are in Israel, but the inspectors are in Iran. Israel kills, yet Iran is sanctioned, and this is a tragedy that would make anyone you tell laugh."
"We must not build a world in which military power replaces legitimacy, sanctions replace diplomacy, terror replaces politics, and war replaces dialogue."
"We have found our answer. We need power. Because a nation that cannot defend itself, they crush it in this world."
"Let him know: the Iranian nation, in the face of force, will not bow its head, and will make the aggressors regret it."
President Masoud Pezeshkian came to New York with a written text. After hearing Donald Trump at the same rostrum the day before, he set it aside, telling delegates he had prepared a speech before the US president called Iran a terrorist state. He was, by most accounts, the first leader to speak at the UN in person in the middle of a war with the United States. Speaking from the heart is why the historic address will be heard well beyond the hall. It should not hide how precise it was - legally, morally and strategically.
He opened with photographs of dead children, victims of American and Israeli bombs, and a direct reply: "We have been the victims of terrorism." "We have only defended ourselves. We are not terrorists." Palestinians know this inversion well. A people defends itself, and the aggressor calls the defence terrorism. Anyone who has watched the last seven months with clarity will recognise it.
He answered the bullying Trump had put on display, musing aloud about annihilating Iran, by standing on the ground of law. Everything said against Iran from that podium, he argued, contradicts the UN Charter. He is right. Article 2(4) forbids not only the use of force but the threat of it, and a head of state weighing the annihilation of a fellow member state before the General Assembly is as plain a threat as the Charter's drafters could have imagined.
Iran asks for no special treatment, only the sovereign equality the Charter promises every member. On the nuclear file his formula was "no nuclear weapons, and no limitations to peaceful nuclear technology." That is the NPT's own bargain: the treaty bars non-nuclear states from acquiring the bomb, and its Article IV guarantees the "inalienable right" of every party to peaceful nuclear energy "without discrimination."
He was equally plain that Iran built its defences to guarantee that any strike on its cities is answered. In Nicaragua v. United States, the ICJ held that international law places no limit on a sovereign state's armaments beyond what it accepts by treaty.
He also took apart the Israeli-made story that Iran's political establishment is on the verge of collapse, and that Iranians would welcome foreign invaders. For seven months people have been in the streets daily in support of the defence effort. The same fact answers Trump's claim that the Iranian state has killed tens of thousands of its own people. A population does not rally under bombardment behind a government it regards as its killer.
Then he named the war crimes. He showed images of the Shajareh Tayyebeh primary school in Minab and of a sports hall in Lamerd where children had been playing. A weapon that scatters tens of thousands of tungsten fragments cannot be used on a school or a gymnasium without striking indiscriminately. A UN fact-finding mission reported this month that there are reasonable grounds to believe the United States committed war crimes in the February 28 strikes. The US delegate left the hall during this passage. Pezeshkian drew the parallel with Gaza, where the ICJ has ordered Israel to prevent acts of genocide and the International Criminal Court has issued arrest warrants for its prime minister and former defence minister.
He turned next to Israel's nuclear arsenal. Israel stays outside the NPT and accepts no comprehensive safeguards, although the Security Council called on it in Resolution 487 of 1981 to place its facilities under IAEA safeguards, and the General Assembly repeats the call every year.
Israel has struck the capitals of its neighbours in breach of the Charter and carries out a documented pattern of war crimes, yet keeps its weapons with impunity. Iran, which has acted only in self-defence for two centuries, is sanctioned and attacked instead, although its facilities remain under an IAEA safeguards agreement.
On Hormuz, he described a strait closed to Iran even as it serves to ship missiles and weaponry into the surrounding region. The law of the sea does not allow this. The 1982 Law of the Sea Convention, which Washington invokes but has never ratified, requires ships passing through a strait to refrain from any threat or use of force against the states bordering it. Under the older rule of innocent passage, a ship serving an attack on the coastal state is no longer in innocent passage at all. Iran will not be shut out of its own waters while others use them to make war on it.
He closed on the indivisibility of security: it exists for everyone in the region or for no one. The idea has a long pedigree. European states wrote it into the Helsinki Final Act in 1975 and restated it in 1999, pledging not to strengthen their own security at the expense of others. "We want strong neighbors," Pezeshkian said. Iran has always been open to diplomacy, "without accepting the language of force."
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أيها الإخوة العرب والمسلمون في كل أنحاء العالم،
نحن، الشعب اليمني، فتك بنا الجوع والحصار. لقد فُرض علينا حصار بري وبحري وجوي لعشر سنوات، وقُتل أطفالنا، ودُمِّرت بنيتنا التحتية.
وقعنا اتفاقًا، وبسبب موقفنا مع غزة طُلب منا عدم الإسناد مقابل رفع الحصار وتنفيذ الاتفاق، لكننا رفضنا لأن ديننا الإسلامي وكتاب الله يأمراننا بالوقوف مع المظلومين.
انتهت حرب غزة، فطالبنا برفع الظلم عنا، لكن محمد بن سلمان رفض ذلك، واستمر في حشد المرتزقة من كل مكان ضدنا.
لذلك قررنا أن ندافع عن أنفسنا برفض الحصار المفروض علينا، وأن نحارب من أجل التخلص من الحصار والجوع اللذين فُرضا علينا.
نحن أقوياء بالله، ولا نطلب مساندة أحد، وإنما نوضح للعالم أننا مظلومون وندافع عن كرامتنا وعزتنا، وحتى لا يلومنا أحد إذا استرددنا لقمة عيشنا ممن سلبها من أفواهنا.
ونحن لا نتوكل إلا على الله، وعليه توكلنا.
In summary & very briefly
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I’m writing these words to you from inside Gaza City, and I say this with complete honesty: the reality here has become far worse than you can truly imagine.
Poverty has affected more than 90% of people here. Tents are packed tightly together in overcrowded camps; they have worn out, torn apart, and filled with holes, and they no longer protect us from the heat, cold, or rain. The area of the city where we can actually live is no more than 30%, and every day, homes that survived the war are being targeted.
Skin diseases are spreading frighteningly among children. Hospitals are out of service, and dental clinics have also started shutting down. There is an extreme shortage of water, foreign organizations have almost completely stopped operating, and cars are beginning to break down because of the lack of engine oil and spare parts. Education has completely collapsed, and the very limited supplies entering Gaza are nowhere near enough.
Life here is almost completely nonexistent. We live on promises, but nothing changes except that the suffering grows, needs multiply, and every day life becomes harsher and more complicated.
Gaza is not coming back to life… we are simply trying not to die.
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This is the scene we are living through in Gaza, what we call "fire belts." Dozens of planes take off in formation and bombard the area with hundreds of missiles at once to kill and destroy as many people as possible.
We will not forget or forgive.
To this day, I cannot understand how the world watched this scene without being moved!!
More than 500 people disappeared after this strike in Gaza City, as if they were erased from existence in a single moment.
History will never forget what we lived through here.
It is now 5 AM and the families and their children are still in the streets as a result of the Israeli army's demand to evacuate an area next to the shelter where we are staying.
One of the most brutal scenes in human history has been leaked.
The moment the tents of displaced people were bombed in the southern Gaza Strip, in the Mawasi area of Khan Yunis, killing more than 500 civilians.
A video that the world must never forget.
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