Without missiles Iran would have ended up ‘like Gaza’, says Iranian president

Middle East Eye · June 23, 2026 War

Without missiles Iran would have ended up ‘like Gaza’, says Iranian president Iranian President Massoud Pezeshkian said on Tuesday that, if Iran did not have its missile defensives, it would have ended up “razed like Gaza” in the US-Israeli war. “If the missiles we have for our defense did not exist, Israel and the United States would have razed Iran like Gaza,” Pezeshkian said, reiterating that Iran’s defensive capabilities would not be negotiated “under any circumstances”.

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