News Center- As Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi began addressing the 78th session of the UN General Assembly, Israel's ambassador to the UN held a protest by holding up a sign.

The sign held by Gilad Erdan included an image of Jina Mahsa Amini, a Kurdish woman who was killed in custody by Iran’s so-called “morality police” in September 2022. The sign read, “Iranian women deserve freedom now”.

 In his speech, Ebrahim Raisi addressed the protests in Iran, calling reports about them ‘distorted’ and ‘fake’. He claimed that they were plots by western intelligence officials. He also said that Islamic teachings say men and women are ‘equal in the eyes of the creator’.