Iran president says country will not surrender to ‘Israel’ & US

• President Masoud Pezeshkian declared that Iran will never accept the "unconditional surrender" demanded by US President Trump, stating that enemies must take that wish "to their graves."
• Pezeshkian apologized to neighboring countries for recent Iranian strikes and announced that the interim leadership council will cease attacks on them unless those nations are used as staging grounds for strikes against Iran.

Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Saturday that his country would never surrender to ‘Israel’ and the United States, as the Middle East war entered its second week.

Iran's enemies "must take their wish for the unconditional surrender of the Iranian people to their graves," Pezeshkian said, in a speech broadcast on state TV.

‘Israel’ and the United States launched strikes against Iran on February, 28 killing the Islamic republic's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and triggering a regional conflict.

Iran has since responded with missile and drone strikes on ‘Israel’ and US interests in regional countries, mainly in the Gulf.

Pezeshkian is among three members of an interim leadership council that has been in charge of Iran since Khamenei's killing.

During the speech, Pezeshkian apologised to neighbouring countries for Iran's attacks across the region, saying that they would not be targeted unless attacks originated from them.

"I must apologise on my own behalf and on behalf of Iran to the neighbouring countries that were attacked by Iran," he said.

"The interim leadership council agreed yesterday that no more attacks will be made on neighbouring countries and no missiles will be fired unless an attack on Iran originates from those countries."