TEHRAN, Sept. 12 — Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Friday that the Iranian people will not surrender to U.S. economic pressure. “Since the United States cannot force Iranians to surrender through bullying, it seeks to make them capitulate owing to livelihood problems and a lack of facilities.
However, the Iranian people will not surrender,” Pezeshkian said at a meeting with Indian religious leaders, elites and businessmen in New Delhi, according to the official IRNA news agency.
He condemned the U.S. naval blockade and economic war against Iran, saying Washington does not want Iran to be an independent country, “but we will not bow to its bullying.”
Iran has been under a U.S.-imposed naval blockade for several months and has recently witnessed an unprecedented intensification of pressure on its economy by Washington.
Last month, U.S. President Donald Trump announced “the most crushing economic operation ever taken” against any country providing a lifeline to Iran, adding that “this will be economic warfare and isolation on an unprecedented scale.” (Namibia Daily News / Xinhua)
