Iran president apologises for striking neighbours
Global News Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 8.3K Ratings
🗓️ 7 March 2026
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
The Iranian president, Masoud Pezeshkian, has said Iran will stop striking its neighbours as long as no attacks originate from them; he's apologised for Tehran's attacks on those countries in the past week. President Trump has referred to that apology in a post on social media, saying "this promise was only made because of the relentless U.S. and Israeli attack". He added that today Tehran "will be hit very hard." Israel is continuing to pound Lebanon, saying it's targetting strongholds of the Iranian-backed militant group Hezbollah; Ghanaian UN peacekeepers have been wounded in a missile attack. Also, we hear from northern Iraq, where Kurdish Iranian opposition groups have been coming under attack. And we talk to an international journalist based in the Iranian capital Tehran.
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| 0:36.5 | on the developments in the U.S.-Israel |
| 0:38.5 | war with Iran on Saturday the 7th of March. Today's main stories. |
| 0:43.3 | The Iranian president, Masoud Peshkian, says Iran will stop striking its Arab neighbors |
| 0:48.8 | as long as no attacks originate from their territory. |
| 0:52.3 | President Trump has characterized the remark as a surrender |
| 0:55.4 | in response to relentless U.S. and Israeli bombardment. |
| 0:59.6 | And we'll hear from northern Iraq, |
| 1:01.5 | where Kurdish-Iranian opposition groups have been coming under attack. |
| 1:05.5 | And... |
| 1:06.2 | I'm located in the very center close to the compound of the supreme leader |
| 1:11.0 | that was actually attacking the first moment of the Israel and American attack. |
| 1:16.4 | I feel it like it was like two streets from my house. |
| 1:19.8 | One Tehran resident tells us about her experience of the war so far. |
| 1:34.7 | As the U.S.-Israel war with Iran enters its second week, the Iranian president has apologized to Iran's Arab neighbors for striking them with missiles and drones. Arab countries |
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