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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Lorenzo Tondo and Jason Burke in Jerusalem

Iran rejects Trump’s demand for unconditional surrender as a ‘dream’

smoke rises from the airport in the distance at night
Israel says it has launched a fresh wave of strikes on Iran, sending 80 fighter jets in a pre-dawn blitz that set one of Tehran’s main airports on fire. Photograph: Atta Kenare/AFP/Getty Images

The president of Iran has rejected Donald Trump’s call for the country’s unconditional surrender as a “dream”, while issuing a rare apology for Iranian attacks that hit neighbouring states, even as missiles and drones continued to strike Gulf countries.

In a prerecorded address broadcast on state television on Saturday, Iran’s president, Masoud Pezeshkian, said the country would never capitulate, responding to remarks by the US president, who said on Friday that only Iran’s total submission could bring the war to an end.

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