Iran ‘not afraid’ of US threats: Pezeshkian

TEHRAN, Oct 10: President Masoud Pezeshkian has said the people of Iran are “not afraid of the enemy’s threats”.
Speaking at the International Exhibition of Rural and Nomadic Capabilities in Tehran, Pezeshkian said that as long as Iranians are alive, they will “remain servants of the proud people of our heroic Iran”.

Despite mounting economic pressure from Washington, Tehran has maintained that it will not compromise on its conditions for ending the war.

In its latest peace proposal, submitted last month, the Iranian government demanded a regional ceasefire, the unfreezing of Iranian assets, the lifting of sanctions on Iranian oil exports and an end to the US naval blockade. In return, Tehran said it would reopen the Strait of Hormuz within seven days. Trump rejected the offer.

Tehran is preparing for a new potential confrontation and testing new air defence systems, with the Iranian military bracing for ongoing pressure over the next two years and treating any agreements as strictly temporary, the editor-in-chief of the Iranian newspaper Al-Wefaq has told Al Jazeera.

“The Iranian armed forces are ready. When we see the testing of new air defence systems in Tehran and other Iranian cities today, alongside ongoing military exercises, it becomes clear that the Iranian side does not actually base its calculations on the US president’s statements,” Mokhtar Haddad told Al Jazeera.�" AL JAZEERA