'No one else can make us surrender': Iran defies US threats

Middle East Eye · May 6, 2026 War

'No one else can make us surrender': Iran defies US threats Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said “No one can make us surrender” as he responded to US calls for concessions in negotiations to end the war, adding that members of the Shia faith “cannot be coerced by force”. Writing on the social platform X, Pezeshkian said he had spoken with Iraq’s prime minister and urged the United States to remove military threats from the Middle East. Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said in recent days that a new security plan for the Strait of Hormuz is aimed at preventing weapons and supplies from reaching US military bases in the region, a key sticking point in talks.

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