⏺📰 Full remarks of Dr. Masoud Pezeshkian:

Israel and the United States are trying to incite the Gulf states around us against us. We are trying to prevent this.

Of course, we also face internal challenges due to different viewpoints. And of course, the United States and Israel take advantage of this situation.

I believe, as I said before—and I’m not saying this just for hypocrisy—that all Muslims are brothers.

This is what the Prophet of God taught us, and what the Bible says. Brotherhood means that all Muslims, whether Shia or Sunni, are united. Every Muslim is a brother.

Their aim was that we should not be fully armed. If they do that, then they will come and destroy our land, just as they are doing in Gaza, and we will be powerless.

Is it right to allow them to destroy our military and defensive capabilities and to surrender to them? We will not do that.

However, we do not intend to attack other countries. We are not looking to seize territory or expand, unlike the Zionist Israel whose goal is “Greater Israel.” We are not looking for “Greater Iran.”

We see all neighboring countries as our brothers. There is no need for conflict; we have shared borders, and we are neighbors.

But Israel does not respect the borders of Islamic countries; they focus on attacking and seizing their lands.

During negotiations with France, which were carried out with the aim of preventing the JCPOA from being activated again, we reached a mutual understanding, but the United States did not allow this to happen.

Europe lacks the necessary authority to make independent decisions.

Sometimes on IRIB, they present it as if the leadership said that we don’t negotiate at all; while we carried out these very actions with their permission and we had even reached an understanding, but the United States undermined it and then the Europeans pushed the issue of snapback.

If they had accepted what we had coordinated with Mr. Macron, then there would have been no need to activate the so-called snapback.

The problem is that the United States has attacked us from the soil of countries in the region and targeted our bases and facilities.

The question is: where did they strike the Minab school from? From those same Muslim countries and our friends. Why should they allow them to come and hit us? We don’t want to target those countries; we strike where we are attacked from.

No government has taken steps in support of the leadership’s policies as much as we have.

Iran was not the initiator of the war, and the support of the people disrupted the enemy’s calculations to bring the country down.