Says “Nuclear Weapon Is In Israel, But Inspectors In Iran” —
The President of Iran threw out his prepared speech at the United Nations General Assembly.
He said so from the podium.
“I had prepared a speech to present to you yesterday.”
But then, he said, the President of the United States called them terrorists. So he answered him instead.
“The United States President described us as terrorists. We have been the victims of terrorism.”
He came in black and he came with props.
First, a portrait of the Supreme Leader, assassinated, he said, with no legal framework and no reason.
Then a book of photographs, held open and turned out to the hall. On one page, rows of fresh graves with flags laid across them. On the other, a wall of faces of the dead, and in front of that wall, women and a small child, looking up.
He named the place. Lamerd. A small city, a sports hall, children playing inside, hit with multiple warheads.
“We are not terrorists.”
Then the two sentences everybody is going to be repeating all week.
“I will repeat: the nuclear weapon is in Israel, but the inspectors in Iran.”
“Israel kills, but Iran is subject to sanctions.”
That was this morning.
Yesterday afternoon, in that same building, Trump’s envoys sat down with Iranian officials for three hours.
And yesterday morning, from that same podium, Trump gave Iran two options. Make a deal, or be annihilated and driven into hell with no chance of survival.
Hell before lunch, negotiating after. Call that whatever you want.
So let’s get the dictionary.
A terrorist is a person who uses violence, destruction, or the threat of those acts to create great fear, usually to force a government, group, or community into meeting political, religious, or ideological goals.
Read it twice. Then look around that room and tell me who’s acting like a terrorist right now.
Violence, seven months of it. The threat of more, out loud, on live television. Great fear, which is the entire reason you say hell with no chance of survival instead of saying we’d like to talk. Political goals, which he named himself: make a deal.
That’s the definition. Every piece of it. The only thing missing is the word, and the word is the only thing we never apply to ourselves.
Because terrorism is violence without a flag. Put a flag on it and it turns into foreign policy. Put an oil contract underneath it and it turns into a friendship.
And I’m not theorizing here.
The man sitting at his table yesterday led the group that was al-Qaeda’s branch in Syria. Ten million American dollars on his head in 2017.
The bounty came off in December 2024, days after he took Damascus. His group came off the terrorist list in July 2025, signed by Rubio, the first jihadist organization removed since 9/11 that wasn’t already dead.
And last month Syria itself came off the state sponsors of terrorism list, where it had been sitting since 1979.
Treasury put the reason in writing. It would help foster additional investment.
Foster additional investment. In a press release. Where anybody can read it.
Al-Qaeda yesterday, fantastic people today. Narco-regime last year, terrific person this year.
So spare me. Nobody has ever gotten off that list by becoming good. They get off it by becoming useful.
And seven months in, the Supreme Leader is dead, the sites are bombed, and Iran is still there, still saying no, and now being negotiated with in a side room. You don’t send envoys for three hours to a country you’ve beaten.
After all of it, this is what the president of Iran said from that podium this morning.
“Yes, they did hit us, but we did not bend the knee.”
That doesn’t sound like winning, President Trump.