We will never bow down to any power: Pezeshkian
‘Iran to negotiate with dignity’
Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian vowed he will never yield to any power or sacrifice the nation’s dignity for comfort but said the country should be run with prudence.
The president made the remarks during a meeting with the personnel of the public relations of the executive organizations as Tehran and Washington still prefer diplomacy to end the tensions in the region which have been caused by a recent aggression by the US and Israel against Iran.
Pointing to the opponents of negotiations with the US, Pezeshkian said, "We will negotiate with dignity and will never back down. It is not right to chant that we will not negotiate. We have logic and we are capable of defending the country's rights with strength."
The president noted that the enemy, having failed to bring Iran to its knees in three days, is now attempting to create division between the Iranian people and their officials.
He further noted that the enemies unjustly killed Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei and killed Iranian commanders, ministers, and scientists, and martyred the innocent students without any legal or human rights logic.
Pezeshkian added that those who claimed to uphold human rights and international law saw those crimes but stood by and only watched.
“They do the same to everyone. Look at Gaza and Palestine — what atrocities they commit,” he recalled.
“And the American media justify it, claiming they are defending themselves,” he said, noting that they call genocide self-defense. “They have power and force, and they do these things.”
On February 28, the United States and Israel initiated an unprovoked war against Iran with the assassination of the Ayatollah Khamenei and several high-ranking military commanders.
The US also killed more than 160 people, mostly students, in an air strike on a school in the southern city of Minab on the first day of the aggression.
In response to the US-Israeli aggression, the Iranian Armed Forces carried out 100 waves of counterattacks over 40 days, targeting US and Israeli military assets, which resulted in significant damage.
After 40 days of conflict, Iran and the US agreed a Pakistani-mediated ceasefire and held one round of negotiations in Pakistan that failed to produce agreement.
However, the two sides have been exchanging proposals to resolve disagreements and end the war in the region.