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In an interview with India Today, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian accused the United States of attempting to sow discord within Iran and across the Middle East. Pezeshkian stated, "their intention is to pit Arab countries against Iran, uh, so that we would be in quarrel and fight against each other, and then they will exploit our oil." Addressing outreach to neighboring Muslim countries, he explained that while Tehran engages in dialogue, problems arise because regional nations host American military bases used to target Iran, leaving the country with no choice but to defend itself.

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00:00I'm glad you're saying this about Europe and the West, because I said to you earlier that I'll ask you
00:06about the UAE and Saudi Arabia, and I come to you now on that.
00:12We're looking at expansion and retaliation against U.S. with attacks on Middle East countries and the Gulf countries.
00:22Isn't this exactly what the West wants, to keep you divided?
00:32Do you have any doubts in this regard?
00:39Actually, they say divide and rule.
00:43Inside our country, those incidents that took happen in January,
00:55the same American government said that they wanted to topple down our government.
01:02Right now, there are various ethnicities in Iran.
01:06They want to pit them against each other, and so they discord and bring about problems in order to topple
01:13down the government.
01:16The same happens in the neighboring countries.
01:20If you look at the writings, and they have already published them,
01:28their intention is to pit Arab countries against Iran so that we would be in quarrel and fight against each
01:38other.
01:38And then they will exploit our oil.
01:42And then, regarding that, they will sell weapons to the Arab countries, and we are just keeping fighting.
01:50So what is the rationale behind that, that in a country, one country should be scared of another country?
02:00Should humans be scared of each other?
02:03Therefore, it is, it is, I mean, what the Americans are doing is sowing the seeds of discord.
02:11And from the day that I took office, my utmost effort was to preserve unity and consistency inside the country
02:22and to, you know, convert these differences of opinion and taste into unity, not discord.
02:33And we stretch the hand of humanity and kindness.
02:38And that is what we are doing.
02:40But they do not want us to proceed.
02:42Why doesn't Iran, present sir, reach out to the Arab world?
02:45This is the Muslim world.
02:46Break the divide between Shia and Sunni that the West has created for so long.
03:00We have done the same before.
03:04Even in the holy month of Ramadan and in other, you know, incidents, we have telephone conversations
03:13with the leaders of the Muslim countries.
03:16But the problem is that the U.S. has established military bases on the soils of these neighboring countries.
03:26And from these bases, they are attacking because so when they attacked us without any reason, actually, we did not
03:38attack them.
03:38We just defended ourselves.
03:40So if we want to defend ourselves, which place should we target?
03:44The same place from which their airplanes, you know, scrambled against our country.
03:49So naturally, this has brought about some, you know, problem with the regional countries.
04:01Yes, they allowed the enemy to locate on their own soil and from those bases to attack our people.
04:09But you expect us not to do anything?
04:13Okay.
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