December 1, 2023
In his annual address to the UN General Assembly, President Raisi said the US “project of Americanizing the world has failed.” He said Westerners were not only pressing a “war against Islam,” but had now launched “a war against the family.” And he said the term “Western democracy” is “just a code name for coups, occupation and war.” President Biden spoke a few hours earlier and made only the briefest passing mention of Iran, saying, “We cannot turn away from [human rights] abuses, whether in Xinjiang, Tehran, Darfur or anywhere else.”