We Did Not Bend the Knee': Pezeshkian's Defiant UN Address Puts Iran's Wartime Grief Before the World

Shahid K Abbas New Delhi, Sep 24 (UNI) In a hall built to give the world's nations a voice, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian brought with him the faces of the dead. Holding aloft large photographs of the late Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and more than 150 Iranian schoolchildren killed in the opening days of the war, Pezeshkian transformed his address to the 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday into an intensely emotional defence of a nation under fire. His message was unmistakable: Iran, he said, had been attacked, its people had suffered and, despite the devastation,…