Politics
Iran's President Offers Dialogue While Accusing Washington of Seeking Subjugation
October 16, 2026 at 01:29 PM · Updated 9h ago
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Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said Iran is ready for dialogue while accusing Washington of seeking to subjugate Tehran.
- Pezeshkian said Iran is ready for dialogue with the United States but will not bow to force, accusing Washington of seeking to subjugate Tehran.
- Pezeshkian met Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze on the sidelines of the COP17 biodiversity summit in Yerevan on Friday.
- Pezeshkian said Iran does not seek a nuclear weapon and called US sanctions and recent US attacks unjustified.
- Iran's Vefagh newspaper editor Mokhtar Haddad said Tehran shifted its military doctrine from defense to preemptive strikes against US aircraft carriers and warships.
- Pezeshkian warned at the Yerevan summit that wars' destructive environmental repercussions threaten the security and well-being of future generations.
- Pezeshkian said at a planning council meeting in East Azerbaijan that US sanctions have caused problems and their continuation would worsen the situation.
- Pezeshkian asserted that Iran's supplies for the people will be secured despite enemy expectations of famine and collapse.




