Iran and Ukraine take center stage at the UN as diplomats push to contain two wars threatening global stability. Transcript JUANA SUMMERS, HOST: Now let's hear more about what happened at the U.N. today. A day after President Trump warned that he could annihilate Iran if they don't make a deal, Iran's president took the podium, and he called the U.S. a terrorist state. Behind the scenes, though, diplomats are scrambling to find some way to de-escalate the war, which has upended global trade, NPR's Michele Kelemen reports.MICHELE KELEMEN, BYLINE: Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian painted his country as a victim, holding up pictures of the supreme leader killed in the first days of the U.S. and Israeli war against Iran and of schoolgirls killed in a strike on a school that the Pentagon is still investigating.(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING)PRESIDENT MASOUD PEZESHKIAN: (Through interpreter) Those who are terrorists and train and protect terrorists describe us as such. We have only defended ourselves. We are not terrorists.KELEMEN: Speaking through an interpreter, he said Iran would not bow its head to a bully. And he painted President Trump as a threat to the international order.(S...
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