🔻 Massoud Pezeshkian, President of Iran, arrives in New York to deliver a speech at the United Nations General Assembly.

This year’s presence of Mr. Pezeshkian and Iranian diplomats in New York is of greater importance due to the coincidence with the war.

Iranian government news agency IRNA wrote that Mr. Pezeshkian’s flight, after a stop in Algeria for refueling, headed to New York.

In images published by IRNA, Mr. Pezeshkian is seen disembarking from an aircraft on which the flag and name of Iran are visible, and which appears to be the country’s aircraft dedicated to transporting senior officials. This comes as the U.S. Treasury Secretary has, in recent days, repeatedly spoken about “the closing of the skies” over Iranian aircraft due to new and severe U.S. sanctions.

On Tuesday, and hours before Mr. Pezeshkian’s arrival in New York, Abbas Araghchi, the foreign minister of his cabinet, met and spoke with Steve Witkoff, Donald Trump’s special representative for Middle East affairs. 📷IRNA