{"id":326623,"date":"2026-03-07T11:13:07","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T11:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/326623\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T11:13:07","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T11:13:07","slug":"iran-to-halt-strikes-on-neighbors-unless-attacked-from-there-pezeshkian-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/326623\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran to halt strikes on neighbors unless attacked from there: Pezeshkian \u2013 POLITICO"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Iranian president said that the country\u2019s interim leaderhip council, appointed after the killing of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei last Saturday, had approved a new directive on responding to military threats, according to a copy of the remarks published<\/a> by state-controlled broadcaster Press TV.<\/p>\n

Under the new policy, Iranian forces are prohibited from targeting neighboring states unless an attack against Iran is launched directly from that country\u2019s territory.<\/p>\n

The comments came as intense Iranian fire targeted the Gulf Arab states early Saturday as Israel and the United States kept up their airstrikes targeting the Islamic Republic, the Associated Press reported<\/a>. There were repeated attacks Saturday morning on Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, according to the AP report.<\/p>\n

After days of mixed signals<\/a> from the White House on the justifications and aims of the war on Iran, Trump on Friday said his administration\u2019s\u00a0ultimate goal is \u201cunconditional surrender\u201d<\/a>\u00a0by the Islamic Republic\u2019s leaders. Trump later said that \u201csurrender\u201d could be a complete defeat of Iran\u2019s military forces.<\/p>\n

\u201cUnconditional surrender could be\u201d an announcement by the Iranian regime, Trump said. \u201cBut it could also be when they can\u2019t fight any longer because they don\u2019t have anyone or anything to fight with,\u201d he\u00a0told Axios in an interview<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF), meanwhile, escalated their bombing campaign of the Iranian capital early Saturday. In a statement<\/a>, the IDF said that more than 80 fighter jets had completed a \u201cbroad-scale\u201d wave of strikes across Tehran and central Iran targeting a military training academy and underground ballistic missile storage sites.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Iranian president said that the country\u2019s interim leaderhip council, appointed after the killing of Supreme Leader Ayatollah…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":326624,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[129531,105611,49,4406,22892,85,87,46,47,2899,11982,43,2201,159387],"class_list":{"0":"post-326623","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-israel","8":"tag-air-defense","9":"tag-ali-khamenei","10":"tag-benjamin-netanyahu","11":"tag-defense","12":"tag-drones","13":"tag-il","14":"tag-iran","15":"tag-israel","16":"tag-middle-east","17":"tag-military","18":"tag-missiles","19":"tag-news","20":"tag-war","21":"tag-war-in-iran"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=326623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/326623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/326624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=326623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=326623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=326623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}