Iran's President tells UN Tehran won't surrender to US but favors diplomacy

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian told the UN on Wednesday that Tehran will never surrender to the US but still favors diplomacy, directly responding to President Donald Trump's threat to "annihilate" Iran made a day earlier at the same forum. The dueling speeches followed the first indirect US-Iran talks in months, which yielded no public concessions. Pezeshkian defended Iran's military actions as defensive and denied seeking nuclear weapons, while Iran separately threatened to disable neighboring airports if they enforce new US sanctions grounding Iranian civilian flights. The June interim agreement that would have lifted sanctions in exchange for nuclear talks collapsed over shipping rules in the Strait of Hormuz, where recent attacks have caused casualties. Oil prices remain near two-week lows despite disruptions, with a third of Gulf oil estimated missing from global supplies.