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Expressing regret for the harm caused by Iran’s strikes against its neighbours, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said connected Saturday (March 7, 2026) that Tehran would nary longer people these countries unless attacks originated from their territory. However, helium vowed that Iran would not surrender successful its warfare against the United States and Israel, adjacent arsenic U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to intensify strikes.
As the warfare entered its eighth day, Israel and the U.S. carried retired strikes crossed Iran, peculiarly targeting the country’s Air Force, portion Tehran fired astatine slightest 8 rocket salvos astatine Israel since midnight. Several Arab countries were targeted successful drone and rocket attacks contempt Mr. Pezeshkian’s remarks.
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“Iran has ne'er planned, nor volition ever plan, an penetration of immoderate neighbour,” Mr. Pezeshkian said successful a televised address. “We person repeatedly said that they are our brothers. We purpose to enactment hand-in-hand with our beloved brothers and neighbours successful the portion to found lasting bid and stability,” helium noted.
He said that Tehran’s interim enactment assembly has decided that neighbouring countries would not beryllium targeted “unless those countries motorboat an onslaught connected us,” authorities media reported. He besides said Iran “regretted” immoderate damages caused to non-military assets deed by Iranian strikes.
‘No surrender’
On Friday (March 6), Mr. Trump ruled retired a woody with Iran’s enactment and demanded “unconditional surrender”. Mr. Pezeshkian insisted this would ne'er happen. “The enemies volition instrumentality the imagination of Iran’s surrender to their grave,” helium said, arsenic per a translation of the code successful the State media.
Later, the Iranian President wrote a bid of societal media posts defending Iran’s subject response. “We basal steadfast to the past enactment successful defence of our state and resist. Iran’s antiaircraft operations are exclusively against targets and facilities that are the root and root of assertive actions against the Iranian nation, and we see them morganatic targets,” helium said.
Iran’s Khatam al-Anbiya service office said successful a connection that Tehran respects the sovereignty of neighbouring countries and has not carried retired immoderate enactment of aggression against them. “However, each subject bases and interests belonging to the transgression United States and the Israeli authorities connected land, astatine sea, and successful the aerial crossed the portion volition beryllium considered morganatic targets of almighty strikes by Iran’s Armed Forces,” it added.
‘Loser of the Middle East’
On Saturday (March 7), Mr. Trump claimed that Iran was “being beaten to hell” and had “surrendered” and promised not to onslaught its neighbours. “This committedness was lone made due to the fact that of the relentless U.S. and Israeli attack. They were looking to instrumentality implicit and regularisation the Middle East. It is the archetypal clip that Iran has ever lost, successful thousands of years, to surrounding Middle Eastern Countries. Iran is nary longer the ‘Bully of the Middle East,’ they are, instead, ‘THE LOSER OF THE MIDDLE EAST’,” helium wrote successful a societal media post. “Today Iran volition beryllium deed precise hard,” helium added.
The U.S. Central Command said that U.S. forces person struck implicit 3,000 targets successful the archetypal week of Operation Epic Fury, adding that “we are not slowing down”.
Continuing strikes
Neither broadside signalled immoderate motion of de-escalation, adjacent arsenic attacks and counter-attacks continued passim the day. The Israeli Defence Forces claimed to person destroyed astatine slightest 16 Quds Force planes successful strikes. Iran fired waves of missiles targeting cardinal Israel, but Israel has reported that determination were nary injuries.
An Iranian Army spokesperson said connected Saturday (March 7), “220 American soldiers and commanders person been killed oregon wounded and important harm has been inflicted connected American assets successful the portion successful retaliatory attacks by the Iranian Armed Forces implicit the past 24 hours.” The Revolutionary Guards besides said they had targeted a Marshal Islands-flagged lipid tanker successful the Persian Gulf waters.
Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi accused the U.S. of attacking a freshwater desalination works connected Qeshm Island. “Water proviso successful 30 villages has been impacted. Attacking Iran’s infrastructure is simply a unsafe determination with sedate consequences. The U.S. acceptable this precedent, not Iran,” helium wrote connected X.
Dubai’s main airdrome was forced to concisely adjacent connected Saturday (March 7) arsenic Iran again launched missiles and drones astatine targets crossed the Gulf. Attacks were reported connected Saturday (March 7) successful the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Kuwait, wherever the nationalist lipid institution announced a “precautionary” chopped to production. The UAE said it had been targeted with 16 ballistic missiles and much than 120 drones.
