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More than 100 delegates walked out as Netanyahu began his UNGA address. He said: if there are any other moral cowards who haven't left, please do so now. The Senate failed a war powers vote 49-50. He was right that they left. He was wrong about why.
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Pezeshkian held photographs of Khamenei and 150 dead schoolchildren at UNGA and asked: 'Is this how the world's most powerful country practises international law?' The US delegation walked out. For that moment, the schoolchildren were present in the General Assembly.
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Pezeshkian held photographs of Khamenei and 150 dead schoolchildren at UNGA and asked: 'Is this how the world's most powerful country practises international law?' The US delegation walked out. For that moment, the schoolchildren were present in the General Assembly.
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Trump asked the UN General Assembly whether to 'drive Iran into hell with no chance of survival and no hope of future generations.' The UN Charter prohibits this. The US co-wrote the Charter. The Security Council cannot act. The chamber produced silence. The record has both.
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Vance declared phase one of the Iran war done on September 15. Phase one was to destroy Iran's nuclear programme, conventional military and power projection. CSIS documented peak nuclear facility construction the same week. The mountain does not appear to have received the declaration.
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The BRICS declaration on the Iran war says: deep concern, maximum restraint, no named actors. India authored it as chair. Eleven days earlier India signed the SCO condemnation of US-Israeli strikes. What a chair writes differs from what a signatory signs.
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Russia and North Korea opened their first road bridge on September 7. The same week the US began trilateral exercises with South Korea and Japan. Behind the bridge: 12,000 Korean troops in Ukraine, a mutual defence pact, Russian missile technology.
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