In this pool photograph distributed by the Russian state agency Sputnik, Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian attends the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit in Bishkek on September 1, 2026. Photo: AFP
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Friday that pressure on his country from the United States had reached a critical and dangerous stage.
Speaking in India ahead of a BRICS summit, Pezeshkian suggested that “the world today is going through a period of unprecedented complexity”, adding that the use of economic levers of pressure only served to exacerbate that.
“Iran has been subjected to heavy sanctions in recent years; this pressure has reached a critical and dangerous stage in recent months following the military aggression by the United States and Israel,” he said.
The US and Israel sparked the Middle East war in late February with strikes on Iran, whose economy had already been weakened by decades of international sanctions. Related News 25 years after 9/11 attack, US panel demands fresh security reforms Africa now world’s most active terrorism theatre — US panel South Africa extradites six Nigerians to US over alleged romance scams
