UN General Assembly
2025

The Assembly will hear an address by His Excellency Massoud Abdeshkhan, President of the Islamic Republic of Iran. I request protocol to escort His Excellency and invite him to address the Assembly. In the name of God, the most compassionate, the most merciful, Mr. Secretary General, Madam President, distinguished representatives, ladies and gentlemen, the theme of this year, and I quote, better together, 80 years and more of peace, development, and human rights, unquote, is in truth a summons to solidarity and to a shared vision of a brighter future. Our religious conviction, as well as the call of the prophets, rests upon the equality of the rights of all human beings. That which renders man more worthy is piety, namely truthfulness, wisdom, purity, and benevolence. The bedrock of all divine religions and of the human conscience is this golden maxim, that which you would not approve for yourself, do not approve for others. Jesus Christ, peace be upon him, once said, act towards others as you would have them act towards you.