Speaking to the media, Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian also defended the Islamabad MoU signed with the US, saying “you will not find any clause in it that we have surrendered anything there”.

According to remarks carried by IRNA, he said: “Anyone who has read it should compare it with the analyses of foreign news agencies. Are they saying we surrendered? Did we fail? Was this agreement, for example, an irrelevant agreement that was signed? We stand firmly by what we have written and defend it.”

Pezizkian stated that the enemy’s calculations were based on creating internal disintegration and division, adding: “This is not a plan that was designed with us in mind. The reason they are doing these things is that all their calculations were that if they attacked, Iran would be torn to pieces; but this did not happen.”

He considered social cohesion and the presence of the people to be important factors in the failure of these calculations, saying: “This was due to the cohesion that was created.”