Pezeshkian: Iran will not cave in to threats
President warns enemies seeking to sow discord in society
Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian said Iran will not back down and will not surrender in the face of any threat after the US president reimposed his so-called maximum pressure policy and threatened Iran with military attack.
“You cannot scare Iran and Iranians; Iranians will not back down in the face of any threat and will not surrender. We are not at war with any country, we have established friendship with all our neighbors, all our neighbors are our brothers and sisters and friends,” Pezeshkian said while addressing a group of Iranians in the southern port city of Bushehr on Wednesday.
Pezeshkian’s remarks were in response to recent measures and threats made by the US President Donald Trump against Iran.
After taking office on January 20, the US president restored his so-called “maximum pressure” campaign on Iran that includes efforts to drive its oil exports down to zero.
Trump has also repeatedly talked about Israel’s military attack on Iran if Washington and Tehran fail to reach an agreement on the latter’s nuclear program.
“I would like a deal done with Iran on non-nuclear. I would prefer that to bombing the hell out of it… They don’t want to die. Nobody wants to die,” Trump told New York Post on Saturday. “If we made the deal, Israel wouldn’t bomb them.”
In a separate interview with Fox News on Monday, the US president reiterated its threats, saying that, “I think Iran would love to make a deal and I would love to make a deal with them without bombing them.”
“Everybody thinks Israel with our help or our approval will go in and bomb the hell out of them,” Trump added, stressing that Israel would need the US support for such a strike.
“I would prefer that not happen. I’d much rather see a deal with Iran where we can do a deal, supervise, check it, inspect it.”
The US president says he wants to negotiate with Iran while closing all the doors for negotiations. He threatens the world not to establish relations with Iran and on the other hand, he says let’s negotiate, Pezeshkian said.
Pezeshkian also warned that the enemies are seeking to sow discord among Iranians in order to make people pessimistic about the management and the leadership of the country.
“We must join hands and build our country with unity,” Pezeshkian underlined.