{"id":334047,"date":"2026-03-07T16:23:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T16:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/334047\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T16:23:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T16:23:12","slug":"iranian-president-defies-us-demands-for-unconditional-surrender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/334047\/","title":{"rendered":"Iranian president defies US demands for \u2018unconditional surrender\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Iran\u2019s president has said that a demand by the United States for an unconditional surrender is a \u201cdream that they should to take to their grave\u201d.<\/p>\n

President Masoud Pezeshkian made the statement in a pre-recorded address aired by Iranian state television.<\/p>\n

He also apologised for Iran\u2019s attacks on regional countries, insisting that Tehran would halt them and suggesting they were caused by miscommunication in the ranks.<\/p>\n

The comments came as intense Iranian fire targeted the Gulf Arab states on Saturday morning as Israel and the United States kept up their air strikes targeting the Islamic Republic.<\/p>\n

There were repeated attacks on Saturday morning on Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.<\/p>\n

In Dubai, several blasts were heard on Saturday morning and the government said it had activated air defences.<\/p>\n

Emirates resumes operations<\/p>\n

Emirates will resume operations. Passengers who have confirmed bookings for this afternoon\u2019s flights may proceed to the airport. This includes customers transiting in Dubai, if their connecting flight is also operating.<\/p>\n

Customers can check the flight\u2026 pic.twitter.com\/kSlcEGKCCz<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Emirates Support (@EmiratesSupport) March 7, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n

Passengers waiting for flights out at Dubai International Airport, the world\u2019s busiest for international travel, found themselves ushered down into train tunnels at the sprawling airfield after the alert sounded.<\/p>\n

Later that morning, long-haul carrier Emirates resumed operations, after briefly suspending all flights to and from Dubai.<\/p>\n

Authorities have not explained if there was an interception or damage at the airport.<\/p>\n

There is no foreseeable end to the fighting. Donald Trump\u2019s administration has approved a new 151 million dollar (\u00a3112 million) arms sale to Israel after the US president said he would not negotiate with Iran without its \u201cunconditional surrender\u201d.<\/p>\n

US officials also warned of a forthcoming bombing campaign they said would be the most intense yet in the week-long conflict.<\/p>\n

\"DemonstratorsA vigil was held in honour of late Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in New York (AP)\n<\/p>\n

Earlier, Iran\u2019s UN ambassador said the country would \u201ctake all necessary measures\u201d to defend itself.<\/p>\n

Footage showed explosions and smoke rising over western Tehran as Israel said it had begun a broad wave of strikes.<\/p>\n

Also early on Saturday, loud booms sounded in Jerusalem and incoming missiles from Iran had people heading to bomb shelters across Israel.<\/p>\n

There were no immediate reports of casualties by Israel\u2019s emergency services.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Israeli warplanes have also hammered Beirut and Tehran. Death tolls continued to rise on Saturday with at least 1,230 people killed in Iran, more than 200 in Lebanon and around a dozen in Israel, according to officials. Six US troops were reported killed.<\/p>\n

The US and Israel have battered Iran with strikes, targeting its military capabilities, leadership and nuclear programme.<\/p>\n

\"PresidentUS president Donald Trump has demanded Iran\u2019s \u2018unconditional surrender\u2019 (Mark Schiefelbein\/AP)\n<\/p>\n

The stated goals and timelines for the war have repeatedly shifted, as the US has at times suggested it seeks to topple Iran\u2019s government or elevate new leadership from within.<\/p>\n

In a sign of the widening nature of the conflict, sirens sounded early on Saturday in Bahrain as Iranian attacks targeted the island kingdom.<\/p>\n

Saudi Arabia said it had destroyed drones heading for its vast Shaybah oil field and shot down a ballistic missile launched toward Prince Sultan Air Base, which hosts US forces.<\/p>\n

Bahrain\u2019s military intercepted two missiles and a drone on Saturday, the defence ministry said.<\/p>\n

That brought to 86 missiles and 148 drones that have been intercepted over Bahrain since the US and Israel launched war against Iran last weekend.<\/p>\n

\"DisplacedDisplaced people are fleeing Israeli air strikes in Dahiyeh, Beirut (AP)\n<\/p>\n

Qatar\u2019s energy minister, Saad al-Kaabi, warned in an interview with the Financial Times that the war could \u201cbring down the economies of the world\u201d, predicting a widespread shutdown of Gulf energy exports that could send oil to 150 dollars a barrel.<\/p>\n

The price for a barrel of benchmark US crude rose above 90 dollars on Friday for the first time in more than two years.<\/p>\n

Writing for the Qatar-funded satellite news network Al Jazeera, a regional analyst warned Iran was making \u201ca strategic miscalculation of historic proportions\u201d.<\/p>\n

Sultan al-Khulaifi, a senior researcher at the Centre for Conflict and Humanitarian Studies, wrote: \u201cBy spreading the conflict to the Gulf, Tehran is doing precisely what Israel could not do alone: steering the war away from the Israeli-Iranian axis and transforming it into a confrontation between Iran and its Arab neighbours.\u201d<\/p>\n

For nearly a half a century, the Iranian regime has been slaughtering Americans. President Trump is doing what other Presidents have refused to do \u2014 eliminate the Iranian threat so no more American blood is spilled by these terrorists.<\/p>\n

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\u2014 Rapid Response 47 (@RapidResponse47) March 6, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n

On Saturday, the defence minister of Saudi Arabia and Pakistan\u2019s army chief met to discuss ways to stop the attacks coming from Iran, the state-run Saudi Press Agency reported.<\/p>\n

Saudi Prince Khalid bin Salman, a son of King Salman, spoke to Field Marshal Asim Munir in Riyadh about the Iranian attacks. Saudi Arabia and nuclear-armed Pakistan have signed a mutual defence pact that defines any attack on either nation as an attack on both.<\/p>\n

Russia has provided Iran with information that could help Tehran strike American warships, aircraft and other assets in the region, according to officials.<\/p>\n

They cautioned that the US intelligence has not uncovered that Russia is directing Iran on what to do with the information.<\/p>\n

This marks the first indication that Moscow has sought to get involved in the war.<\/p>\n

\"PeopleA symbolic funeral was held for Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Baghdad, Iraq (Hadi Mizban\/AP)\n<\/p>\n

Israel has said that over the past week it has heavily bombed an extensive underground bunker that Iranian leaders had planned to use during the hostilities.<\/p>\n

New information has surfaced suggesting that a deadly explosion at a school in the Iranian city of Minab, some 680 miles south-east of Tehran, was likely caused by US air strikes. The information includes satellite images, expert analysis, and public information released by US and Israeli military forces.<\/p>\n

Iranian state media has said more than 165 people were killed in the blast, most of them of children.<\/p>\n

Iran has blamed Israel and the US for the explosion. Neither country has accepted responsibility, though American defence secretary Pete Hegseth said the US is investigating.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, India\u2019s foreign minister said on Saturday that an Iranian naval vessel has docked in India, after a US submarine sank an Iranian warship and another vessel sought assistance from Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n

Subrahmanyam Jaishankar said the IRIS Lavan is docked in southern Kochi city, after India granted permission when the vessel reported \u201chaving problems\u201d on March 1. \u201cI think it was the humane thing to do,\u201d Mr Jaishankar said.<\/p>\n

A US submarine sank the Iranian warship IRIS Dena off the coast of Sri Lanka on Wednesday. Another vessel, the IRIS Bushehr, requested assistance from Sri Lanka and more than 200 sailors were brought ashore. Both ships had previously taken part in naval exercises hosted by India, but Mr Jaishankar said they had been \u201ccaught on the wrong side of events\u201d once the war began.<\/p>\n