Netanyahu defends attacks on Iran at the UN as Pezeshkian condemns them
At the UN, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu defended the U.S.-Israeli attacks on Iran, saying they had stopped Tehran from developing nuclear weapons and that attacking Iran's nuclear facilities was an easy decision. Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian accused the United States and Israel of attacking Iran and criticized a U.S. attack on a girls' school.
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First reported among our outlets by Der Spiegel (Germany), · most coverage from Germany (1)
What the parties said
Israel
He said the war in which Israeli and US forces have attacked Iran for close to seven months had stopped Tehran from being able to develop nuclear weapons.
He said the fall of Iran's leadership, whose envoy at the UN displayed a portrait of slain Quds force commander Qasem Soleimani on their vacant desk, was not "far."
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