NEW DELHI : Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said on
Friday that pressure on his country from the United States had reached a
critical and dangerous stage.
Speaking in India ahead of a BRICS summit, Pezeshkian
suggested that “the world today is going through a period of unprecedented
complexity”, adding the use of economic levers of pressure only served to
exacerbate that.
“Iran has been subjected to heavy sanctions in recent
years; this pressure has reached a critical and dangerous stage in recent
months following the military aggression by the United States and Israel,” he
said.
The US and Israel sparked the Middle East war in late
February with strikes on Iran, whose economy had already been weakened by
decades of international sanctions.
The Islamic republic retaliated by choking off the Strait
of Hormuz, a key waterway for energy transit, causing global energy prices to
surge.
“When a country is subjected to political and military
pressure on its trade, energy, infrastructure and financial system, the
repercussions extend beyond its borders,” Pezeshkian said.
The Iranian president is on his first official visit to India, and is due to hold bilateral talks with Prime Minister Narendra Modi later on Friday, according to Indian diplomatic sources.
