18 outlets · filed 22 September 2026
Iran’s president to address U.N. General Assembly after Trump threatens annihilation
Masoud Pezeshkian, the president of Iran, is in New York to speak before world leaders even as his country remains at war with the United States.
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Most outlets frame the day around the UN General Assembly lineup, with Iran’s president Masoud Pezeshkian and Ukraine’s Zelenskyy set to speak, and several live posts from AP, Reuters, The Hill, PBS, Al Jazeera and The Guardian explicitly note Pezeshkian before Zelenskyy. A second, dominant thread is Trump’s UN address and his repeated threat to “annihilate” Iran, which NBC, CBS, ABC, BBC, the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times and Channel 4 all foreground. The Guardian and CBS are the main outlets that also highlight reported U.S.-Iran talks on the sidelines, while NPR is the outlier here, using the summit to ask more generally whether the UN General Assembly is accomplishing anything.
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