Iran’s Pezeshkian slams ‘terrorist’ US but extols diplomacy in UN speech

Iran: Strait of Hormuz won’t be used to ‘impose insecurity on us’ In a defiant speech at the United Nations General Assembly, Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian has delivered a sharp rebuke to a threat by US President Donald Trump from the same rostrum the previous day to annihilate the country, but left the door open for diplomacy to end nearly seven months of war. “The US president called us terrorists but we are the victims of terrorists,” Pezeshkian said on Wednesday.