Iran war live: Tehran promises never to surrender as war enters eighth day

 

• Iranians have woken up to the sounds of massive explosions in Tehran and elsewhere in the country as the war launched by the United States and Israel goes into its second week with no signs of slowing down.
• President Masoud Pezeshkian says Iran will never capitulate after US President Donald Trump demands “unconditional surrender” as Tehran continues to strike targets in Israel and Gulf region with drones and missiles.

IRGC says neighbours’ sovereignty respected, all US-Israel bases and interests to be targeted if attacks continue

We have a statement from Khatam al-Anbiya Headquarters of the IRGC following Pezeshkian’s comments that Iran’s interim leadership council had approved stopping attacks on neighbouring countries – unless an attack on Iran originated from there.

“Following the statements of the president, the armed forces once again declare that they respect the interests and national sovereignty of neighbouring countries and, up to this point, have committed no aggression against them,” the statement, which was carried by state media, said.

“However, should the previous hostile actions continue, all military bases and interests of criminal America and the fake Zionist regime on land, at sea, and in the air across the region will be considered primary targets and will come under the powerful and crushing strikes of the mighty armed forces of the Islamic Republic of Iran.”