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Iran president condemns American ‘aggression,’ says US had to act due to Israel’s ‘obvious inability’

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian speaks to navy officials, in Tehran, Iran, May 17, 2025. (Iranian Presidency Office via AP)
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian condemns US strikes on nuclear sites, saying in his first response that the attack revealed Washington was “behind” Israel’s military campaign in the Islamic Republic.
“This aggression showed that America is the main factor behind the Zionist regime’s hostile actions against the Islamic Republic of Iran,” he says, according to IRNA news agency, adding that the United States acted after seeing Israel’s “obvious inability.”
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