Iran is at war with the United States, Israel and Europe, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said Saturday, 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.
Pezeshkian’s statement came with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu readying a visit to the United States this weekend for a confab with Trump on Iran.
Trump’s strikes in June 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.
But with the White House resuming its policy of crippling sanctions against Tehran upon Trump’s return to the Oval Office in January, the strife is far from over, Pezeshkian said.
“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.”
The White House and Israeli Embassy both did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Pezeshkian’s comments.
