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As Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian delivered his first tackle to the United Nations Common Meeting on Wednesday, accusing the US and Israel of “savage aggression,” 1000’s of Iranian Individuals and dissidents massed exterior the constructing to denounce what they known as the hypocrisy of the UN for giving Tehran’s rulers a platform.
Contained in the corridor, Pezeshkian claimed June’s U.S. airstrikes on Iran’s nuclear services amounted to a “grave betrayal of diplomacy” and a violation of worldwide legislation. He stated the assaults killed civilians, scientists and intellectuals, whereas insisting Iran “by no means sought weapons of mass destruction.”
Exterior the U.N., nonetheless, the message was very totally different. Protesters waving Iranian flags and holding placards declared that Pezeshkian didn’t characterize the Iranian individuals.
IRAN PRESIDENT ACCUSES US OF ‘GRAVE BETRAYAL’ WITH NUCLEAR STRIKES IN UNGA SPEECH
Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian addresses the eightieth United Nations Common Meeting at U.N. headquarters in New York on Sept. 24, 2025. (Jeenah Moon/Reuters)
Mitra Samani, a former political prisoner held for 4 years in Tehran’s infamous Evin Jail within the early Eighties, traveled from Los Angeles to attend. “We’re right here to say that the seat within the U.N. doesn’t belong to these murderous regime brokers. It belongs to the individuals of Iran and their representatives, and we consider that’s the Nationwide Council of Resistance of Iran,” she informed Fox Information Digital.
Samani stated she has attended the rally yearly for 3 many years. “I promised myself once I was launched from that dungeon that I might be the voice of my pals that I misplaced. That’s why I’m right here yearly.”
Nasser Sharif, chair of the Iranian American Group of California, stated 1000’s got here from 40 states to take part within the protest. “We’re right here to assist the Iranian Resistance, the Nationwide Council of Resistance of Iran, and to condemn the regime for its crimes towards humanity,” Sharif informed Fox Information Digital.
Protesters rally exterior UN throughout Iran President Pezeshkian’s speech at 2025 UNGA. (Alireza Jafarzadeh)
He added that the motion backs the plan for a free, secular, democratic republic in Iran: “We’re asking the U.S. administration to place extra strain on the regime and aspect with the Iranian individuals and their want for democratic change.”
Alireza Jafarzadeh, deputy director of the U.S. workplace of the Nationwide Council of Resistance of Iran, known as the rally “a powerful present of pressure.”
“1000’s of protesters supported the overthrow of the Iranian regime by the Iranian individuals, without having for international boots on the bottom or offering cash and arms,” he stated.
IRAN REGIME ESCALATES REPRESSION TOWARD ‘NORTH KOREA-STYLE MODEL OF ISOLATION AND CONTROL’
Members of the Group of Iranian American Communities (OIAC) and supporters of the Iranian Resistance collect at Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza for the “2025 Free Iran NY Rally” on Sept. 23, 2025, in New York Metropolis. (Stephanie Keith/Getty Photographs)
Jafarzadeh additionally criticized the UN for giving Tehran a platform regardless of repeated condemnations of its human rights file. “It’s appalling to see the world’s main executioner play any position in any U.N. physique coping with human rights. It’s like appointing a serial killer as a decide to rule on his personal murders.”
Richard Goldberg, senior advisor on the Basis for Protection of Democracies (FDD), stated the UN’s willingness to raise Iran displays “an alternate actuality.”
“The U.N. is loads just like the Netflix present ‘Stranger Issues.’ You stroll via the door, the characters are the identical, nevertheless it’s a horrifying different actuality the place a tyrannical, women-oppressing, nuclear-weapons-pursuing regime can function a frontrunner of human rights, girls’s rights and nuclear nonproliferation organizations,” Goldberg stated.
He added that Pezeshkian arrived in New York “with nothing — no common assist at dwelling and no nuclear weapons program to scare the remainder of the world,” whereas going through looming U.N. sanctions that would destabilize Iran’s financial system.
Behnam Ben Taleblu, senior director of FDD’s Iran program, stated the speech was “quick however not candy.”
Protesters rally exterior UN throughout Iran President Pezeshkian’s speech at 2025 UNGA. (Alireza Jafarzadeh)
“Sadly, this stuff have come to be anticipated from the U.N. in relation to Iran. Whereas the fact-finding mission on Iran languishes as a consequence of lack of funding and workers, the regime continues to be supplied a platform to spew its invective and propaganda,” he informed Fox Information Digital.
Taleblu highlighted the irony of Iran’s management roles in worldwide organizations: “Can there be one thing extra ironic than the Islamic Republic of Iran, which has lengthy been a proliferator and in search of a nuclear weapon, being a vice chairman of the IAEA?”
He added that Pezeshkian’s remarks have been overshadowed by current feedback from Supreme Chief Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. “Whereas Pezeshkian and [Iranian negotiator Abbas] Araghchi have been in NYC attempting to stall and forestall SnapBack, Khamenei didn’t mince phrases when it got here to no negotiations with America. ‘Supreme Chief’ is a title meant to be taken slightly actually in spite of everything.”
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U.S. President Donald Trump’s Center East envoy Steve Witkoff stated Wednesday that Washington was speaking to Iran and that the U.S. had a “want” to understand a everlasting resolution to the dispute. However Iran’s Overseas Ministry informed Reuters Thursday that the U.S. saying it needed a diplomatic resolution to Iran’s nuclear program was a “deception.”
“America’s declare of a want for diplomacy is nothing however deception and blatant contradiction; one can’t concurrently bomb a rustic whereas partaking in diplomatic negotiations and converse of diplomacy,” ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei stated.
