Iran to halt strikes on neighbors unless attacked from there: Pezeshkian

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Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian issued a direct apology to his country’s neighbors on Saturday as Israeli fighter jets unleashed a massive overnight bombardment on the Iranian capital. In a prerecorded address broadcast on state television, Pezeshkian said that he would seek to to deescalate tensions with Iran’s neighbors following a week of cross-border missile and drone exchanges. The Iranian president said that the country’s interim leaderhip council, appointed after the killing of