Months into a grinding conflict, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian addressed a gathering of physicians and offered what he framed not as a plea for peace, but as a victor's prerogative — the choice to stop fighting while the world, he claimed, had already rendered its verdict against Washington. His overture arrived at a moment when both governments were reaching for different instruments: Tehran for the language of dignity and global sympathy, Washington for the lever of economic annihilation. The distance between those two postures — one seeking an exit, the other seeking a collapse — reve
Iran's Pezeshkian calls for war's end from 'position of strength' amid US sanctions threat
The article references US attacks on Iranian schools, hospitals, and infrastructure but provides no casualty figures or specific impact data.