In a significant development that is expected to bring relief to the Gulf states and to rattled energy markets, Iran's president Masoud Pezeshkian announced on Saturday that the interim leadership council decided and instructed Iran's armed forces that "from now on they should not attack neighbouring countries or fire missiles at them, unless we are attacked from those countries."
In addition, Pezeshkian apologised to Iran's neighbours explaining that "what happened was that our commanders and our leader lost their lives following the barbaric aggression and our armed forces, the champions that are sacrificing their lives to defend our territorial integrity, fired at will because their commanders were absent and did whatever necessary. They proudly and powerfully defended our homeland."
