Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian delivered a sharp rebuke to a threat by US President Donald Trump from the same rostrum the previous day to annihilate the country at the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday. During his defiant speech, he held up pictures of Iranian schoolgirls killed in a US strike on their school, among others. Photo: AFP

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