Pezeshkian says Iran is under its harshest blockade since 1979

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said his country faces its harshest blockade and war since the 1979 revolution and will not allow Americans to achieve their goals.

• Pezeshkian, speaking at a planning council meeting in East Azerbaijan, said Iran faces the harshest blockade, war and difficulties since the 1979 revolution.
• He said Iran will not permit the US to realize what he called its "evil intentions," accusing Washington of seeking to raise living pressures to provoke protests.
• The president said the enemy's bet that an attack would cause famine and societal collapse had failed, and Iran will secure supplies by all possible means.
• The US-Iran war began February 28 with US and Israeli strikes that killed Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei.