Iranian president says US pressure will not yield results

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian stated on Sunday that new US sanctions would prove ineffective, despite Washington's commitment to ramp up economic pressure on Tehran. According to Al Arabiya, citing Iran's ISNA news agency, Pezeshkian declared that, due to the actions taken by the Iranian government, the United States would not achieve anything with economic pressure at this point, similar to their failure during the war.

Pezeshkian's comments followed the United States' pledge last Thursday to tighten economic sanctions on Iran in an attempt to topple the regime, almost six months after the conflict began with initial American and Israeli strikes on Tehran on February 28. Meanwhile, Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf asserted on Sunday that the United States had been vanquished by Iran both militarily and politically, and would be economically defeated as well.

Ghalibaf told Iraqi Supreme Judicial Council President Faiq Zaidan that the United States had suffered a "crushing defeat," crediting this to the sacrifices of martyrs, the efforts of the populace, and the resistance front. Ghalibaf also alleged that Israel aimed to escalate the conflict in the region, claiming that if Israel had triumphed in its war with Iran, confrontations would have expanded to other countries.