Iran Claims They’re in ‘All-Out War’ With US, Europe and Israel

With the people of Iran increasingly in revolt—and their sympathies openly aligned with Israel and the United States—the mullahs’ regime is running out of road. The clerical state is cracking under pressure from within and without, and it knows it.

That reality spilled out in a rare moment of candor from Iran’s president, Masoud Pezeshkian, who declared, “We are in an all-out war with the U.S., Israel, and Europe.” In an interview reported by the Financial Times, Pezeshkian admitted the regime feels besieged—economically, culturally, politically, and from a security standpoint. He complained that sanctions are choking oil sales and trade, hollowing out livelihoods, and fueling public anger, while falling global oil prices have delivered a further blow to state revenues.

Behind the defiance lies desperation. Pezeshkian conceded Iran is drowning in “extensive” crises—water shortages, financial mismanagement, economic collapse, and social unrest—while insisting Tehran will not abandon uranium enrichment, despite U.S. demands. But as the Iranian people rise against their rulers and look outward—to the free world the regime demonizes—the balance of power is shifting. The street no longer belongs to the mullahs. And without the people, they don’t stand a chance.

“We are in an all-out war with the US, Israel and Europe,” Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian said. More from Financial Times: “They do not want our country to stand upright . . . and are surrounding us from all sides: economically, culturally, politically and from a security perspective,” he told Khamenei.ir, the supreme leader’s news website, in an interview published on Saturday…. “While they raise society’s expectations, they block our [oil] sales and our trade, undermining people’s livelihoods.” Pezeshkian acknowledged his government was struggling with declining revenues, saying in the interview that a drop in global oil prices had also dealt a heavy blow to Iran’s income. That added to what he described as “extensive” problems in “water, financial management, politics, social affairs, the economy and culture”…. Deep disagreements between the sides remain, with Tehran maintaining it will not accept a reduction of its uranium enrichment to zero, as requested by the US (Financial Times).