Mohammadjavad Akbarin, a member of Iran International’s editorial board, said that negative reactions to Masoud Pezeshkian’s speech at the UN General Assembly are, above all, due to what he called “the continuation of lies and shamelessness in the rhetoric of the leaders of the Islamic Republic.”

He said that Pezeshkian spoke about Gaza and human rights while, according to him, denying and distorting the killing and crackdown on protesters in Iran.