Hardliner says US unlikely to respond to Pezeshkian's ‘pacifist’ comments

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian and VP Mohammad Reza Aref at the airport after returning to Tehran from New York, September 2024
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian and VP Mohammad Reza Aref at the airport after returning to Tehran from New York, September 2024

A hardline academic in Tehran, frequently featured on Iranian state TV as a US politics expert, has claimed that the United States is unlikely to respond to Pezeshkian's “pacifist remarks” during his visit to the UN headquarters in New York.