President tells Trump that Iran will never 'bend at the knee'

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Iran's president made a defiant speech at the UN, asserting Tehran will never submit despite accusing the US and Israel of launching a war and branding Washington a terrorist for assassinating former supreme leader Ali Khamenei. He emphasized Iran did not start the conflict.

Iran's president struck a defiant tone at the UN on Wednesday where he spoke for the first time since Washington and Israel launched an all-out war on his country, vowing Tehran would never "bend at the knee." Masoud Pezeshkian accused Washington of "terrorism" for assassinating former supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei at the start of the war. He held up a photograph of the dead leader, before insisting Tehran had never started a war.