President Pezeshkian: Iran will never submit to US threats, bullying

President Masoud Pezeshkian has stressed that Iran rejects the language of threats, and will never submit to US “bullying.”

Pezeshkian made the remarks in a phone call with Iraqi prime minister-designate Ali Faleh al-Zaidi on Tuesday during which discussed the challenge faced by regional countries following the US-Israeli aggression against Iran.

“The Islamic Republic of Iran is ready for any dialogue within the framework of international law, but based on its faith, belief, and conviction, it has not submitted and will never submit to coercion in any way. If they speak to us logically, dialogue is possible, but the language of threats and bullying will not lead anywhere,” Pezeshkian said during the phone call.

The US and Israel started a fresh round of aerial aggression on Iran on February 28, some eight months after they carried out unprovoked attacks on the country.

Iran began to swiftly retaliate against the strikes by launching barrages of missile and drone attacks on the Israeli-occupied territories as well as on US bases and interests in regional countries.

On April 8, a Pakistan-brokered temporary ceasefire between Iran and the US took effect. However, subsequent peace negotiations in Islamabad ultimately failed amid Washington’s maximalist demands and insistence on unreasonable positions.

Despite the ongoing ceasefire announced, US President Donald Trump continues to threaten Iran with military aggression, while refusing to lift a so-called naval blockade on Iranian ports in the Persian Gulf.

Iran has maintained that the blockade amounts to piracy and warned that if the security of its ports in the Persian Gulf and the Sea of Oman is threatened, no other port will be safe.

Pezeshkian stressed that the Islamic Republic is keen to maintain its relations with the Persian Gulf Arab states based on good neighborliness.

“We do not want any conflict with our brothers in the region, but the reality is that our country's schools, hospitals, and infrastructure were bombed from American bases located on the territory of some countries in the region and with the use of their space and facilities,” he said.

“We call for unity and cohesion among the Muslim Ummah based on religious teachings, and we believe that if the right, fair, and just path is followed, there will be no reason left for disagreement,” the president added.

Elsewhere in his remarks, the Iranian president congratulated al-Zaidi on his new position, expressing Tehran’s readiness to strengthen cooperation with the “brotherly” country of Iraq.

For his part, al-Zaidi vowed to enhance relations with Iran in the economic, political, security and regional convergence fields.

He also expressed Baghdad's readiness to host negotiations between Iran and the United States with the aim of ending the war.

“We believe that today's power of Iran does not belong solely to Iran, but is a support for all Muslims and Shias, and we will never accept that this power should be taken from Iran. It was this power that helped us in the fight against Daesh [terrorist group]. Iraq needs Iran's support; because Iran's power is Iraq's power, and Iran's weakness will be Iraq's weakness.”

Israel’s aggression: Iran president urges Iraq to protect its borders, airspace

The Iranian president says Iraq should extend more protection of its borders and airspace to prevent any act of aggression against Iran.

Drone attacks target anti-Iran terrorists in northern Iraq

Reports said two drone attacks hit a position of the anti-Iran Kurdish Komala terrorists in Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdistan region in the early hours of Wednesday.

The two drones successfully hit the Surdash camp in the Dukan area of Sulaymaniyah Province, where the Komala terrorists were located.

That’s while a released video showed the terrorists trying to prevent the attacks by firing continuously at the drones in a failed attempt.

Anti-Iran Kurdish terrorist groups serving Western and Israeli interests have been designated as terrorist organizations by Iran.

For years, these groups have attacked Iranian security forces in Kurdish-majority areas along the western and northwestern parts of Iran.

Following the US-Israeli aggression, five Kurdish separatist groups, including Komala, announced a political coalition to challenge the Islamic establishment in Iran and seek secession of Kurdish areas from the rest of the country.

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