Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said that Iran is at war with the United States, Israel, and Europe. Pezeshkian made the comments months after President Donald Trump ordered strikes on three Iranian nuclear facilities.
“In my opinion, we are in a full-fledged war with America, Israel, and Europe; they do not want our country to stand on its feet,” he said Saturday in an interview on the website of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader.
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Trump’s strikes in June infuriated Iran, and the country demanded that the United Nations take action against the U.S. This marked an inflection point in a nearly two-week-long armed conflict between Iran and Israel, now dubbed the 12 Day War, which the president helped end with a ceasefire in late June.
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Recently, the White House has restarted its policy of crippling sanctions against Tehran upon Trump’s return to the Oval Office in January, prompting Pezeshkian to declare that this conflict between Iran and the West is far from over.
“Here, they are besieging us from every aspect, they are putting us in difficulty and constraint, creating problems — in terms of livelihood, culturally, politically, and security-wise — while raising society’s expectations,” he said. “On one side, they block our sales, our exchanges, our trade, and on the other side, expectations in society have risen. Consequently, we must all help with all our might to fix the country.”
Neither the United States ruling class nor Israel has responded to the comments made by Pezeshkian.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is currently preparing for a visit to the United States this weekend for a meeting with Trump on Iran.
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