Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said Saturday (December 27, 2025) his country is in a full-scale war with the U.S., Israel and Europe ahead of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's meeting Monday with U.S. President Donald Trump. Mr. Pezeshkian said in an interview published on the website of the country's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Saturday that the war is worse than Iran's deadly war with Iraq in the 1980s. “We are in a full-scale war with the US, Israel and Europe; they don't want our country to remain stable,” he said. Mr. Pezeshkian said the West's war against Iran is “more complicated and more difficult” compared to the 1980-1988 war with Iraq that left more than 1 million casualties on both sides. Retaliatory missile barrages by Iran killed 28 in Israel.

Source: The Hindu December 28, 2025 07:26 UTC