Images of martyred children represented Iran during Netanyahu’s ‘fascistic’ UN speech: Tehran
Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman has denounced the “fascistic” remarks of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the UN General Assembly, saying that the images of Iranian children killed in the Israeli aggression in June represented the country during his speech.
In a post on his X account on Friday, Esmaeil Baghaei denounced Netanyahu’s speech as “fascistic tirades of a wanted criminal” delivered to a “near-empty hall.”
The spokesman noted that during the address, the true representation of the nation of Iran was the images of “innocent children—martyred during the Israeli regime’s criminal attacks.”
Today, in the United Nations General Assembly, during the fascistic tirades of wanted criminal #Netanyahu before the almost empty hall, it was the images of Iran's innocent children—martyred during the Israeli regime’s criminal attacks—that represented the Nation of #IRAN. These… pic.twitter.com/1KWHVWCWKd
— Esmaeil Baqaei (@IRIMFA_SPOX) September 26, 2025
“The martyrs laid bare the deceit and brutality of an aggressor who felt no shame in taking pride in his atrocities,” he added.
On June 13, Israel launched a blatant and unprovoked act of aggression against Iran, triggering a 12-day war that killed at least 1,064 people in the country, including military commanders, nuclear scientists, and ordinary civilians.
Iran’s health ministry says at least 102 women and 38 children have been killed during Israel’s military aggression against Iran, carried out with US-supplied weapons.
Baghaei also challenged the very platform granted to Netanyahu, asking, “How come a wanted war criminal is permitted to stand at the world’s most august platform, look the global community in the eyes, and advance his campaign of lies and deception to justify genocide, aggression, and warmongering?”
In November 2024, the ICC issued arrest warrants for Netanyahu and his war minister, Yoav Gallant, for war crimes and crimes against humanity in Gaza.
A series of UN queries had already accused Israel of committing war crimes and the crime against humanity of extermination in Gaza through its systematic attacks on the civilian sites and healthcare system.
According to the Gaza Health Ministry, over 65,500 Palestinians have been killed, with more than 167,500 others injured, since the beginning of the genocidal war in October 2023. Many victims of Israeli attacks remain trapped under the rubble and on the streets.
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