# Pezeshkian tells UN Iran will ‘never bend at the knee’ in defiant wartime address

https://mins.news/en/item/70909

- France 24, 2026-09-23 15:49 UTC
- World
- Original: https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20260923-iran-will-never-bend-at-the-knee-pezeshkian-tells-un-defiant-wartime-address

> Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian delivered a defiant wartime address at the UN on Wednesday, accusing the United States of terrorism in Iran and insisting his country would not “bend at the knee.” While calling for diplomacy, he saw Iranian officials play down talks with US counterparts on the assembly’s sidelines as “not anything new.”

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