The Iranian authorities have denounced this Friday the "criminal" Israeli Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, whom they accuse of having taken advantage of his speech before the 81st United Nations General Assembly to "justify war and aggression," also emphasizing that "history will judge him for his crimes."
The Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Legal and International Affairs, Kazem Qaribabadi, has stated that "Netanyahu, the criminal, came to the General Assembly (of the UN) to turn the podium of this international organization into a platform to justify war and aggression," before highlighting that "the withdrawal of 77 delegations was extremely eloquent, much more than any speech."
In a message disseminated on social media, Qaribabadi insisted that "the world is not fooled by fabricated narratives," referring to the departure of these delegates just before Netanyahu began his speech. "History will judge the crimes, the occupation, and the aggression, not the publicity maneuvers in New York," the Iranian official emphasized.
During his speech, Netanyahu responded by labeling as "moral cowards" those who left the plenary before he began to speak. The Israeli leader defended the presence of the "Jewish people" in the Occupied Palestinian Territories and in the Syrian Golan Heights, also under Israeli occupation, and rejected the accusations of "genocide" for the offensive in the Gaza Strip following the attacks of October 7, 2023, which he described as "the biggest lie of the century."
Netanyahu also claimed the military operations carried out by Israel since those attacks. "Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, Iran, the militias in Iraq, the militias in Syria, the Palestinian terrorists in the West Bank, all stood up and fought to wipe us off the face of the earth, but they did not succeed, because instead of crumbling, what we did was attack them with our great American friends," the Prime Minister stated.
In his intervention, the Israeli leader also lashed out at the "murderous dictatorship" in Iran and assured that, although "destroying Iran's nuclear facilities was difficult," for him "it was one of the easiest decisions as prime minister." He also added that "maybe not in a long time, the Iranian people will be free. Their murderous regime will be overthrown by its corruption, by its crimes, by its cruelty. This evil regime will fall and we will all celebrate it."