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Netanyahu promises surprises and a fight against lies about Israel at the UN on Thursday
September 24, 2026
Netanyahu pledges to confront what he calls lies about Israel at the UN, a day after Pezeshkian, Iran's president, described its nuclear program as peaceful.
Benjamin Netanyahu is Israel's prime minister, and the United Nations General Assembly is meeting in New York, where world leaders including Iran's president are addressing the body.
Netanyahu heads into his Thursday address to the General Assembly promising surprises and a campaign to "fight against the lies" he sees aimed at his country, Fox News reports. Iran's president, Masoud Pezeshkian, spoke to the body the day before, calling his nation peace loving and its nuclear aims peaceful while warning that Iran would resist any war forced on it. Reuters ties the Israeli leader's short trip to New York to strained relations with the US, and The Washington Post casts the address against his growing isolation abroad and his standing with voters at home. Those headlines add political pressure; they do not dispute anything Fox News carries.
Fox News also carries a warning from Yahya Safavi, who once led the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and now advises Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khameni: a fresh US or Israeli strike could push the conflict as far as the Indian Ocean. Safavi said, “Now that it has expanded from the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz to the Red Sea, this front may be expanded in response to the next stage of a possible war (and extend to the Indian Ocean or elsewhere.” Fox News separately describes US forces using infrared lasers to knock out Iranian drones and cruise missiles around Hormuz. Closer to Israel, Danny Danon, its envoy to the UN, told Fox News that Neria Leiter, a reservist whose father Yechiel Leiter is Israel's ambassador to the US, was hurt in a ramming incident in the West Bank. Slovenia's prime minister, Janez Janša, also told Fox News that the UN applies double standards, with Gaza drawing attention away from Ukraine.
The outlets agree that Netanyahu reaches the assembly under strain. Most of the account is still developing: what the speech contains, what surprises he means, and whether Iran follows through on Safavi's warning all await further reporting.
Still developing
The Thursday speech where Netanyahu promised surprises was still forming by the time of draft.
How settled the reporting is
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- Fox News — Netanyahu teases 'surprises' for UN address as Iran nuclear threats push oil prices up
Toggle read the full reports of 3 of the 5 outlets counted on this event. The other 2 are counted from their headlines and opening sentences.