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Pezeshkian says US should take surrender demand ‘to their grave’ as Iran targets Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, UAE
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Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian addresses cabinet members, as they visit of the tomb of the late Iranian revolutionary leader ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, in Tehran on January 31, 2026. (Handout/Iranian Presidency/AFP)
Iran’s president says that a demand by the United States for an unconditional surrender is a “dream that they should to take to their grave.”
President Masoud Pezeshkian makes the statement in a prerecorded address aired by state television.
The comments came as intense Iranian fire targeted the Gulf Arab states as Israel and the United States kept up their airstrikes targeting the Islamic Republic.
There were repeated attacks on Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
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