President of Iran Masoud Pezeshkian takes questions from the media during a news conference in New York on Sept. 26, 2025. (AP Photo\/Angelina Katsanis, File)<\/small><\/p>\n
2026-08-22T09:23:58Z<\/p>\n
Iran\u2019s president says the world has accepted that it\u2019s won the war with the United States and remarks by the U.S. Ambassador to Turkey and special envoy for Syria appear to contradict official U.S. position over the Golan Heights.<\/p>\n
Here\u2019s a look at the latest developments in the Iran war and the wider Middle East on Saturday. Full coverage can be found here<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n Iranian state media reported Friday that President Masoud Pezeshkian said the war with the U.S. should end since the world has already accepted that Iran has won. <\/p>\n \u201cThe entire world approved our victory and the U.S. is hated,\u201d he said according to IRNA news agency. <\/p>\n The remarks came as the Trump administration is touting a crushing financial campaign<\/a><\/span> against Iran, promising an \u201ceconomic D-Day\u201d<\/a><\/span> against the country. President Donald Trump announced that the U.S. would be imposing an \u201cunprecedented\u201d level of economic warfare and isolation on Iran, aiming to force its leadership<\/a><\/span> to cave to demands to end its nuclear program and fully reopen the crucial Strait of Hormuz<\/a><\/span> to oil and natural gas tankers.<\/p>\n In an interview Friday, Tom Barrack said that Israel \u201cstill\u201d occupies the territory in violation of U.N. resolutions.<\/p>\n In his comments made to Mario Nawfal, a Lebanese-Australian entrepreneur, Barrack said that \u201cin the Golan, with Syria, they (Israel) still occupy the Golan, against the U.N. resolutions.\u201d<\/p>\n Israel captured the Golan Heights from Syria in the 1967 war and annexed it in 1981. The U.N. considers the territory occupied Syrian land and the annexation null and void, with U.N. resolutions calling for Israel\u2019s withdrawal to the June 4, 1967, line.<\/p>\n In March 2019, Trump signed a proclamation recognizing Israeli sovereignty over the Golan Heights, reversing decades of U.S. policy. The move did not change the territory\u2019s status under international law or win broader international recognition.<\/p>\nIran\u2019s President says the world has accepted that Iran won the war<\/h2>\n
U.S. Ambassador to Turkey and special envoy for Syria appears to contradict official U.S. position on the Golan Heights<\/h2>\n