At the United Nations General Assembly, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian refused to yield to an American ultimatum that framed Iran's future as a choice between submission and annihilation — a confrontation that distills, in the starkest terms, a seven-month conflict rooted in competing claims over sovereignty, security, and the arteries of global commerce. The standoff, which has already claimed the lives of civilians including children struck in their school, and sailors in contested waters, now rests uneasily on the fragile possibility of indirect diplomacy brokered in the corridors of t
Iran's Pezeshkian defies Trump's 'annihilate' threat, demands end to US blockade
Over 175 civilians, mostly children, killed in missile strikes on Iranian school and sports complex; one Indian sailor killed in Strait of Hormuz attack.