# Iranian president says country will not surrender after Trump’s ‘annihilate’ threat

https://mins.news/en/item/70839

- CBC News, 2026-09-23 14:58 UTC
- World
- Original: https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/iran-un-general-assembly-united-states-9.7355113?cmp=rss

> Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said Iran would not surrender in a rare wartime address to the UN General Assembly on Wednesday. His remarks followed U.S. President Donald Trump’s suggestion a day earlier that he might “annihilate” Iran, amid a war that has lasted nearly seven months.

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