Reporter's Notebook: Call for for a free Iran echoes at the United Nations
UNITED NATIONS, New York: When Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian addressed the United Nations General Assembly, he portrayed his nation as the victim of American and Israeli terrorism.But outside the hall, a thousand protestors chanted that he should be arrested for being a terrorist."They are terrorists, they must go!" the crowd repeatedly shouted, waving green, white and red flags of the resistance.THE TOP MOMENTS FROM IRAN PRESIDENT’S TENSE VISIT TO US SOIL AS WAR RAGESDemonstrators lined up outside the United Nations General Assembly on Monday, Sept.21, with flags and signs.
(Brooke Curto/Fox News Digital)"The president of Iran speaks and lies over and over again.He is a murderer.
He is a terrorist," former New York City Mayor Rudy Guillani told the gathering."It is useless to negotiate with them because they are terrorists, murderers, possibly in some ways insane religious maniacs.This would be like trying to reach an agreement with Hitler."Various former high-level government officials struck the same tone, slamming the radical Islamic regime that they say has savagely oppressed and butchered the Iranian people for decades.
Estimates say upwards of 20,000 protestors who took to the streets of Iran earlier this year demanding freedom have been murdered by the government. Reports of executions of political prisoners continue each week.Demonstrators lined up outside the United Nations General Assembly on Monday, Sept.21, with flags and signs.
(Brooke Curto/Fox News Digital)"It is time now to free Iran from the Mullahs," Ret.Lt.
General Keith Kellogg, who has served in both Trump administrations, told the gathering, "You have a road map to a secular, non-nuclear Republic of Iran, one that rejoins the free world as a friend."TRUMP TO ZERO-IN ON IRAN NUCLEAR THREAT, GAZA PLAN AND UN OVERHAUL IN WORLD STAGE SPEECHFormer US Ambassador Marc Ginsberg urged Congress to pass the "Maximum Support Act," legislation that would crack down on Iran's resources, confis...