ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said Saturday Tehran will halt attacks on neighboring countries unless Iran is attacked, while apologizing for recent strikes and rejecting calls to surrender.
“Yesterday in the Interim Leadership Council, we decided that from now on, neighboring countries should not be targeted, unless we are attacked from their side,” said Pezeshkian, who is a member of the council alongside Chief Justice Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Ejei and Ayatollah Alireza Arafi of the Assembly of Experts.
The council was formed after US and Israeli strikes last week killed several senior Iranian leaders, including Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.
In retaliation for the attacks, Iran targeted several countries in the Gulf as well as Iraq and the Kurdistan Region, saying it was striking US positions in neighboring territories. The attacks have also resulted in damage to civilian and economic infrastructure, as well as non-military sites.