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.

https://www.politico.com/news/...ant_id=OTV632IE7RALS


there are many sources reporting this

They can’t deliver enough water to Tehran. It’s so bad, they are relocating the Capitol.

The Iranian people are pissed at their theocracy.

Go to war with the world?

Good luck with that.

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They can’t deliver enough water to Tehran. It’s so bad, they are relocating the Capitol.

Can’t move water to the town, so they’re moving the town to water. Sounds like a plan by Islamic scholars.

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They can’t deliver enough water to Tehran. It’s so bad, they are relocating the Capitol.

Can’t move water to the town, so they’re moving the town to water. Sounds like a plan by Islamic scholars.

Not moving the town...just the government center. They don't care about the people, just themselves.

Smart move - bite the hands that could possibly help you.

They've been at war with us since the Shah left.
Our citizens and press mostly didn't get the memo.
They say stuff like this to rally the troops/true believers as needed. It's needed now to distract from their self-caused problems and will be repeated as long as it helps them in any way.

ISIS decides to take on the Turkish.gov and there are a few stories of an uprising in Syria as well.

I've been watching this London-based YT channel for a while for his coverage of Iran from people he knows on the ground in Iran (the presenter is an Iranian driven from his country by the theocracy).

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They've been at war with us since the Shah left.

They've been at war with the civilized world for 1400 years.

Sounds like right now they are at war with their own citizens, especially their shopkeepers.

Well, If Masoud is at war with everybody, perhaps a JDAMS might find a way to land on his ass!
War is hell!

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Originally posted by John Steed:
Sounds like right now they are at war with their own citizens, especially their shopkeepers.

I've mentioned this in the past. The Iranian people do not go along w/ the radical religious leaders.
They tend towards western values.
Turning Iran into a glass parking lot sounds fun until you realize the people like us more than their own government.
It will be interesting how this plays out.

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Originally posted by John Steed:
Sounds like right now they are at war with their own citizens, especially their shopkeepers.

I've mentioned this in the past. The Iranian people do not go along w/ the radical religious leaders.
They tend towards western values.
Turning Iran into a glass parking lot sounds fun until you realize the people like us more than their own government.
It will be interesting how this plays out.

there is an Iranian Canadian lady on most social media that is posting stuff about protests, and the ratio of Clerics etc vs Persians/Christians, and how the majority of Iranians are getting tired of the system

Good luck haha.

“War is the remedy that our enemies have chosen, and I say let us give them all they want.”
– General William T. Sherman

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“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

Well, you've had about 45+ years to get it on, you guys haven't very productive or very efficient about it...

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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.

It's a distraction...
The people are turning against the Ayatollahs.

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The people are turning have turned against the Ayatollahs.

FAFO comes to mind.

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“In my opinion, we are in a full-fledged war with America, Israel, and Europe;

If that's the case then their military is the Purdue Boilermaker football of militaries. Zero offense and their defense looks like a bullfighter armed only with only a cape.

Iran has been at war with the west since 1979.