According to Simira Qara’i, an Iran International journalist, Masoud Pezeshkian, president of the Islamic Republic, in his second speech at the United Nations General Assembly, held after the 40-day war, emphasized the power of the Islamic Republic and its use to defend itself, and said that Iran does not want nuclear weapons but wants a nuclear program. Last year, after the 12-day war, he had stressed that the Islamic Republic is a perpetrator of violations of international law and had cited “All human beings are members of one another.” This year, he said: either we build security together, or we have to tolerate insecurity alongside each other. In response, Marco Rubio, the U.S. secretary of state, said that a government that “drags its own people into the street” and attacks its neighboring cities has no right to speak about the UN Charter and international laws.