TEHRAN
\nIranian President Masoud Pezeshkian says that the country is facing its most intense blockade since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, accusing the United States of seeking to provoke public protests, media reports.
\n\u201cOver the 48 years since the Revolution, we have never faced such an intense blockade, war and difficulties as we are facing now,\u201d Pezeshkian said in a speech broadcast by state television.
\nHe accused Washington of seeking to make life difficult for Iranians in order to fuel public anger and trigger unrest.
\nPezeshkian said the US was focusing its efforts on making \u201cthe people become upset and face difficulties, and then for social protests to emerge so that they can achieve their sinister objectives\u201d.
\nA summit between the European Union and Gulf countries in Riyadh has been postponed, Brussels has said, as Saudi Arabia faces sustained attacks from Yemen\u2019s Houthis, media reports. \u201cThe second Summit between the European Union and the Gulf Cooperation Council, originally planned for 24 October 2026 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, has been postponed. A new date will be announced in due course,\u201d the European Council representing the bloc\u2019s member states said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
TEHRAN Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian says that the country is facing its most intense blockade since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, accusing the United States of seeking to provoke public protests, media reports. \u201cOver the 48 years since the Revolution, we have never faced such an intense blockade, war and difficulties as we are facing now,\u201d …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":104414,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-104430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=104430"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":104440,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/104430\/revisions\/104440"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/104414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=104430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=104430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=104430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}