🇮🇷 🇺🇳 | Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian at the United Nations General Assembly:

“We responded, but we did not target civilian populations. They entered our surrounding territories and targeted our universities, healthcare centers, schools, and hospitals. Israel targets neighborhoods in cities and provinces and carries out assassinations like a true terrorist. In Gaza, more than 80,000 innocent civilians have been brutally murdered. They are committing genocide using the so-called technologies at their disposal, and then they label others as terrorists. Are we the source of instability? We only seek to live independently.”

“For the past two centuries, Iran has not attacked any country or territory. We have always defended ourselves steadfastly. Yet today, we are accused of being a source of instability in the region. We are labeled terrorists. We do not wish to use our power for hegemony, nor do we seek our security through the insecurity of others. We will not bow our heads or surrender the rights that inherently belong to us. We say it clearly: no nuclear weapons, and no limitations on peaceful nuclear technology.”

“Iran does not see its neighbors as security rivals. We want strong neighbors. In the waters of the Strait of Hormuz, we do not seek to impose insecurity. We cannot allow some to enjoy free access and benefit from this waterway while simultaneously using it to impose aggression and insecurity upon us, and denying us access to our own waterway. They deny us access while continuing to supply missiles and deadly military technology that bring insecurity to all the lands surrounding it.”

“We cannot speak of peace while ignoring Palestine. Lasting peace in West Asia is impossible without justice for Palestine. As long as occupation, aggression, and injustice persist, resistance will continue. If it is weakened in one form, it will re-emerge in another, perhaps even stronger. Our regional issues must be resolved within the region, by the countries of the region, without becoming a toy in the hands of outside aggressors. No relationship with a foreign power should become a tool for threatening neighboring countries.”

“Iran has never been an aggressor, has never started a war, and has always shown its commitment to the negotiating table. They imposed war on us, but we have proven that we are not afraid of a defensive war, and we will defend our beloved Iran and our homeland until our last breath.”

“Atomic and nuclear bombs are in the hands of the Israeli regime, yet inspectors are sent to Iran. Israel has brutally murdered more than 70,000 innocent people in Gaza, while Iran was bombed during negotiations. Israel possesses nuclear bombs and weapons of mass destruction, is not a member of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, has never allowed a single inspection throughout its existence, and yet it is rewarded with every means necessary to bomb any capital in the region at will.”

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