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Iran is in a state of “comprehensive war” with the United States, Israel, and Europe, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said Saturday, Anadolu reports. “We are in a state of comprehensive war with the United States, Israel, and Europe,” Pezeshkian said in an interview published on the official website of Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. “This war is more dangerous, more complex, and more difficult than the war with Iraq” between 1980 and 1988, he added. The Iranian leader accused the US, Israel and some European countries of supporting the collapse of Iran. “The situation during the war with Iraq was clear: they fired missiles and we knew where to strike. But today, they surround us from all sides, apply pressure on us, […]
