Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian delivered a defiant speech at the United Nations as Tehran downplayed talks with the United States about their 7-month-long war. Speaking before the U.N. General Assembly on Wednesday, Pezeshkian said his people had been the “victims of terrorism” at the hands of the United States. He described U.S. attacks on his country as “cowardly.” Iran's Foreign Ministry, meanwhile, took aim at U.S. President Donald Trump's assessment of talks between the countries as “very good,” instead characterizing them as “not anything new.”
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Iran’s president said Wednesday that his people have been ‘victims of terrorism’ by the United States. He is delivering a rare wartime speech at U.N. General Assembly a day after President Donald Trump said he could “annihilate” the Islamic republic. President Masoud Pezeshkian held up photos of the late Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and the more than 150 school children killed on the first days of the war. He said that Iran's people “have only defended themselves.” Iran’s president delivers wartime address at UN: We have been ‘victims of terrorism’
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In this photo taken with a smartphone, mourners carry the casket of a victim who was killed in Friday's suicide bombing at a mosque, for a funeral in Kohat, in northwestern Pakistan, Saturday, Sept. 19, 2026. (AP Photo/Maaz Awan)
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An Islamic State group members has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for aiding the terrorist organization that took credit for a suicide bombing that killed 13 U.S. service members and about 160 Afghans at a Kabul airport five years ago. A federal jury in Virginia had convicted Mohammad Sharifullah in April of providing material support to an IS affiliate. U.S. troops were conducting an evacuation operation at the airport when a lone suicide bomber detonated an improvised explosive device near an entry point known as Abbey Gate. Prosecutors say Sharifullah’s role was scouting a route to the airport.