Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian is scheduled to deliver an address at the 81st session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York on Wednesday evening.

Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi sharply criticized what he called European double standards regarding regional developments, saying European countries cannot claim to support the rule of law and human rights while remaining indifferent to, or even supporting, the blatant US-Israeli military aggression against Iran.

Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Mojtaba Khamenei has urged students to pursue knowledge, skills and ethics, describing education as a defense tool against the US-Israeli aggression.

Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi, who has traveled to New York to attend the annual session of the UN General Assembly, held a series of bilateral meetings with his counterparts on Tuesday on the sidelines of the assembly's 81st session.

Ali Akbar Salehi, president of the Iranology Foundation and Iran's former foreign minister, said that when international officials condemn an atrocity but decline to name who committed it, that is not neutrality — it is "a great form of permissiveness," delivered at an International Day of Peace ceremony where he cited the missile strikes on a school in Minab and a sports hall in Lamerd as cases where the institutions meant to prevent such acts failed to hold anyone accountable.

Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf warned the US that Iran will not surrender or halt its activities in the face of pressure, stressing the country’s military capabilities and sustained deterrence.

Tehran has proposed reopening the Strait of Hormuz within seven days if the United States takes initial steps to ease military pressure on Iran, Japan's Kyodo News claimed on Tuesday.

A senior Iranian diplomat says the United States’ aggression, along with its economic warfare and support for armed riots, amounts to crimes against humanity, calling on the international community to bring Washington to account for its atrocities against the nation.

The Trump administration’s denial of visas to members of Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian’s media team ahead of this week’s United Nations General Assembly is not an exercise in managing access; it is an attempt to conceal the truth and push a campaign of misinformation, Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei has said.

Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi has said the Iranian delegation's foremost purpose at this year’s United Nations General Assembly is to take the world stage and defend the righteousness, rights and interests of the Iranian nation after a cowardly war of aggression by the United States and the Zionist regime.

The spokesperson for the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) says Iran will begin reverse-engineering a US underwater drone captured by IRGC Navy forces.

President Masoud Pezeshkian has pledged to firmly defend Iran’s position and convey the country’s strength to the world during his upcoming address to the UN General Assembly and the meetings he is scheduled to hold on the sidelines.

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian stated that the actions and pressures of the United States have inadvertently paved the way for increased convergence and continuous interaction among Islamic countries.