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."