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Iran's president tells Trump it will never 'bend the knee'
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Masoud Pezeshkian's defiant speech to the UN comes after the US president threatened to "annihilate" Iran if a peace deal is not agreed soon.
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Iran will 'never bend at the knee', Pezeshkian tells UN in defiant wartime address
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