Iran in ‘full-scale war’ with US and Europe, says president | EUROtoday

Iran’s president has claimed that his nation is in an all-out conflict with the West, days earlier than Donald Trump meets with Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Masoud Pezeshkian stated that the “full-scale war with the US, Israel and Europe” was worse than Iran’s conflict with Iraq within the Nineteen Eighties, during which lots of of hundreds of individuals died.

“We are in a full-scale war with the US, Israel and Europe; they do not want our country to stand on its feet,” he stated within the interview revealed on the web site of the nation’s supreme chief, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, on Saturday.

Mr Pezeshkian stated the West’s conflict towards Iran is “more complicated and more difficult” in comparison with the 1980-88 conflict with Iraq that left greater than 1 million casualties on each side.

“In the war with Iraq, the situation was clear: they fired missiles, and I also knew where to hit,” he defined. “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.

“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 remarks got here simply two days earlier than a deliberate assembly between Mr Trump and Mr Netanyahu throughout the Israeli chief’s go to to the US.

Iran is predicted to be a key matter within the talks after Israel and the US got here collectively throughout a 12-day air conflict in June, which killed practically 1,100 Iranians, amongst them senior army commanders and nuclear scientists. Retaliatory missile barrages by Iran killed 28 in Israel.

Mr Netanyahu is predicted to transient Mr Trump on attainable new Iran strikes throughout his go to, in response to NBC, as Israel stays involved that Iran is increasing manufacturing of its ballistic missile program.

On prime of the Iranian president’s conflict declaration, the Ayatollah shared a press release for the 2025 annual assembly of the Union of Islamic Student Associations in Europe on his web site, the place he stated that Iran had overcome a heavy assault by the US military.

He stated: “The heavy assault by the US army and its disgraceful extension in this region was overcome by the initiative, courage, and sacrifice of the young people of Islamic Iran.”