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Speaking on the 81st General Assembly on Wednesday, the president stated Tehran was prepared for dialogue however rejected “the language of force,” known as Donald Trump’s phrases an indication of “the character of a bully and the logic of force,” and held up images of the late Ali Khamenei and of schoolchildren killed within the strike on Minab within the warfare’s first hours.

Three issues drew the messages: the hole between the president’s posture overseas and the state’s conduct at dwelling; the crackdown of January that he didn’t identify; and the way in which he spoke.

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‘Only courageous in entrance of us’

The most frequent response set the president’s phrases in New York beside the state’s phrases in Iran.

“The Islamic Republic wants dialogue with anyone stronger than itself,” one wrote, “and bullies its own defenseless people.”

Another pointed to Pezeshkian’s repeated use of the phrase power: inside Iran the state threatens America, he wrote, and in New York it asks “why are you bullying us.”

The president’s personal language on the January protests was not removed from writers’ minds. In August he known as the protests a “riot” and described those that reported the killings as “cowards and traitors,” remarks that had drawn an earlier wave of messages. On January 11, days after the killings, he had known as the protesters “terrorists” and demanded a “decisive” response from the safety forces.

One author put it in a single line: for 47 years the Islamic Republic has been busy with terror, and now Pezeshkian involves play the sufferer.

Another watched the supply moderately than the textual content. “People like Pezeshkian only claim power and swagger in front of us,” he wrote. “From the trembling voice, the stumbles and the level of stress in his speech, it was clear how brave he is in front of real superpowers.”

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What he overlooked

Pezeshkian by no means used the phrase protests. The Iranians he described within the streets these previous seven months have been the crowds on the state’s personal rallies, organized by the Revolutionary Guards and the Basij, out at evening, in his telling, to defend the nation in opposition to individuals “America and Israel had incited and put guns in the hands of.”

The tens of millions who got here out in opposition to the state, and the tens of 1000’s killed, didn’t seem within the speech in any respect.

A author from Qeshm, the island within the Strait of Hormuz, stated the president had repeated the state’s model of the protests as a substitute of talking about Iran’s personal victims, together with these killed on January 8 and 9 and in earlier crackdowns.

Others handled the speech as an event to record what it omitted: the protests of December 2017 and January 2018, Bloody November in 2019, the Woman, Life, Freedom rebellion of 2022, the January 2026 rebellion, and the poisoning of women’ colleges in 2022 and 2023.

The messages got here days after the UN fact-finding mission on Iran offered its newest report. Its chair, Sara Hossain, stated the January crackdown had met protests with an “extremely violent” response, and that lots of the violations, together with killings and imprisonment, amounted to crimes in opposition to humanity.

Several writers stated that Iranians themselves had been pushed to the margins of the speech. “Pezeshkian was more a defender of the Revolutionary Guards and of Palestine,” one wrote, “than someone who wanted to say anything about the people of his own country.”

How he stated it

The third and most private thread was the president’s method: his stroll, his supply, his command of his personal textual content.

Many described his bearing as a avenue powerful’s swagger and in contrast him to Shaban Bi-Mokh, the Tehran strongman whose mobs helped deliver down the federal government within the 1953 coup and whose nickname means “the brainless.” Writers stated his grip on the speech was so weak {that a} passerby pulled off the road and put on the UN lectern would have spoken extra fluently and stated extra.

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A author from Tehran stated he had been ashamed to look at Pezeshkian symbolize Iran, in a speech he discovered empty of manners, tradition or “any diplomatic decorum.”

“Why can’t he speak properly?” one other requested. “He talked as if someone had a gun to his head.”

One author in contrast the speech to these of Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi and stated the extent of language from the president of the Islamic Republic had left him astonished.

Several concluded that the supply mirrored the workplace. Pezeshkian, they wrote, has no authority of his personal; he reads what’s written for him and handed to him.

“That is why they made him president,” one wrote. “The text they write for him usually has a fixed structure, and it is on file at the foreign ministry and the presidency.”