Massoud Pazhkian, the president of Iran, arrived in New York to deliver a speech at the UN General Assembly.

Massoud Pazhkian, the president of Iran, arrived in New York to deliver a speech at the UN General Assembly.

The presence of Mr. Pazhkian and Iranian diplomats in New York this year is all the more important because it coincides with the war.

The state news agency of Iran - IRNA - wrote that Mr. Pazhkian's flight went to New York after stopping in Algeria for refueling.

In the photos published by IRNA, Mr. Pazhkian gets off the plane, which has the flag and name of Iran on it, and it seems that it is a special plane carrying senior officials of this country. In the meantime, in recent days, the US Treasury Secretary has repeatedly talked about "closing the world's skies" to Iranian planes due to the new and severe American sanctions.

On Tuesday, an hour before Mr. Pazhkian's arrival in New York, Abbas Irakchi, his government's foreign minister, met and spoke with Steve Witkoff, Donald Trump's special representative for Middle East affairs.

IRNA