{"id":2000125788,"date":"2026-09-12T10:14:31","date_gmt":"2026-09-12T08:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/?p=2000125788"},"modified":"2026-09-12T10:14:33","modified_gmt":"2026-09-12T08:14:33","slug":"iranian-president-says-not-to-surrender-to-u-s-economic-pressure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/iranian-president-says-not-to-surrender-to-u-s-economic-pressure\/","title":{"rendered":"Iranian president says not to surrender to U.S. economic pressure"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;Since the United States cannot force Iranians to surrender through bullying, it seeks to make them capitulate owing to livelihood problems and a lack of facilities. However, the Iranian people will not surrender,&#8221; Pezeshkian said at a meeting with Indian religious leaders, elites and businessmen in New Delhi, according to the official IRNA news agency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He condemned the U.S. naval blockade and economic war against Iran, saying Washington does not want Iran to be an independent country, &#8220;but we will not bow to its bullying.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Iran has been under a U.S.-imposed naval blockade for several months and has recently witnessed an unprecedented intensification of pressure on its economy by Washington.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last month, U.S. President Donald Trump announced &#8220;the most crushing economic operation ever taken&#8221; against any country providing a lifeline to Iran, adding that &#8220;this will be economic warfare and isolation on an unprecedented scale.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"864\" height=\"486\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.igihe.com\/en\/2026\/09\/aswert.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2000125790\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Friday that the Iranian people will not surrender to U.S. economic pressure.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Friday that the Iranian people will not surrender to U.S. economic pressure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2000125790,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[101],"byline":[235],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-2000125788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-40","tag-internationl","byline-xinhua"],"bylines":[{"id":235,"name":"Xinhua","slug":"xinhua","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":80}],"contributors":[{"id":235,"name":"Xinhua","slug":"xinhua","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":80}],"featured_image":{"id":2000125790,"url":"https:\/\/cdn.igihe.com\/en\/2026\/09\/aswert.webp","alt":"","caption":"Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Friday that the Iranian people will not surrender to U.S. economic pressure.","mime_type":"image\/webp","width":864,"height":486,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/cdn.igihe.com\/en\/2026\/09\/aswert.webp","width":864,"height":486},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/cdn.igihe.com\/en\/2026\/09\/aswert.webp","width":864,"height":486},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/cdn.igihe.com\/en\/2026\/09\/aswert.webp","width":864,"height":486},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/cdn.igihe.com\/en\/2026\/09\/aswert.webp","width":864,"height":486},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/cdn.igihe.com\/en\/2026\/09\/aswert.webp","width":864,"height":486}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000125788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2000125788"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000125788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2000125791,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000125788\/revisions\/2000125791"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000125790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2000125788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2000125788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2000125788"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=2000125788"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=2000125788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}