Iran delivers a defiant message to Trump at the U.N.
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Good morning. Iran signals defiance in its UN address and vows it will not surrender in the face of President Trump's threats. How thousands of non-citizens were mistakenly added to voter rolls. There
are changes that might need to be made, but the prospect for making those changes at the moment may be clouded by politicization of the issue.
And a prolific cyber hacking group claims to have breached FBI systems.
What did Iran’s president say at the UN about U.S. threats and its nuclear program?
It's Thursday, September 24th. I'm Gideon Resnick. This is Apple News Today.
Iran's president told the UN General Assembly his country would not be bullied by the US and stressed it would not give up on a civilian nuclear program. President Massoud Pazeshkian said that he changed his speech at the last minute after hearing President Trump threaten to annihilate his country while at the very same podium one day earlier. In his speech delivered with UN translation, he referenced Trump directly.
He must know that the resistance of the Iranian people will only increase in the face of sanctions, increased pressure, increased increased bullying. We will never bow our head or bend at the knee.
It was a historic event, the first time a president of a country actively at war with the US has stood in New York to address the UN Assembly. Pozechkin used the occasion to accuse the US of killing civilians. He held up an image of schoolgirls in a classroom, referring to the missile that hit an Iranian school hours after the war began.
Those who are terrorists and train and protect terrorists. Describe us as such. We have only defended ourselves.
We are not terrorists. Last week, UN investigators concluded that strike and one other were launched indiscriminately and said they amounted to war crimes. American officials have dismissed the report's findings. And those same UN investigators also found Iranian authorities committed crimes against humanity during the country's crackdown of protesters. The US delegation walked out during the speech, mirroring the decision by Iranians a day earlier. Yet the two countries still appear open to dialogue. When US and Iranian officials met on the sidelines of the UN on Tuesday in their first sit-down talk since June, they reportedly discussed Iran reopening the Strait of Hormuz in exchange for the US ending its naval blockade.
That blockade has caused huge problems for the Iranian economy, preventing it from exporting oil and importing much of what it needs, from commodities to manufactured goods and even food. 70% of its typical importance ports come through ports that have been blocked. Initially, Iranian leaders hoped to bypass the blockade by moving trade from sea to land, using trucks, planes, and trains.
How did the UN delegation react to Iran’s speech and what diplomatic talks followed?
But Wall Street Journal reporter Ben Waffou Kone told us things are not going to plan.
The problem is all these routes are congested. In some cases, they're basically being stopped. The alternative land routes didn't have the capacity to handle which used to go on much bigger carriers, which was these large container ships. We're talking about huge quantities coming by sea.
Beyond that, Iran's neighbors have introduced new barriers to getting goods across their shared borders. We've seen the Iraq.
And Turks, especially carrying security checks, so making things much more complicated for goods to cross in and out of Iran. And that created further delays.
Hundreds of trucks have gotten stuck at Iran's border in recent weeks. And Foucault told us that goods are having to travel on longer, complicated routes to get around the closed ports. And that is being passed.
To customers. We've seen some goods typically having the cost of transportation in the cost of the actual good coming from 5% to 30%.
As those costs have been passed on, food inflation rose more than 100% in August, according to statistics the journal cited.
A new investigation from Reuters has shed light on how thousands of non-citizens came to be added to voter rolls. You might remember that earlier this summer, New Jersey's Democratic governor Mikey Sherrill announced that the state had discovered a glitch in the computer system for its Motor Vehicle Commission.
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7 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:05–0:32
2
What did Iran’s president say at the UN about U.S. threats and its nuclear program?
0:32–2:57
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How did the UN delegation react to Iran’s speech and what diplomatic talks followed?
2:57–5:25
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What is the impact of the U.S. naval blockade on Iran’s economy and trade routes?
5:25–7:58
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How are neighboring countries and border checks further complicating Iran’s imports?
7:58–10:14
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Why did thousands of non‑citizens end up on U.S. voter rolls and how did the glitch happen?
10:14–12:42
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What reforms are being proposed to prevent voter‑registration errors in the future?
12:42–13:33
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