# Live: Pezeshkian to address UN for first time since US-Israel war on Iran

https://mins.news/en/item/70399

- France 24, 2026-09-23 10:13 UTC
- World
- Original: https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20260923-live-pezeshkian-set-to-address-un-for-the-first-time-since-us-israel-launched-iran-war

> Iranian President Massoud Pezeshkian is due to speak at the UN General Assembly on Wednesday, his first address there since the United States and Israel launched the war on Iran. A day earlier, Donald Trump told the assembly he could “annihilate the Islamic Republic” and “drive them into hell.”

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