Iran says ‘world approved our victory’ over the US

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said Friday the war between the U.S. and Iran should end because the world has accepted Tehran’s victory in this conflict.

His comments, which were reported by state media, come ahead of new economic sanctions from the U.S. expected next week.

“The entire world approved our victory and the U.S. is hated,” he said, according to the state-run IRNA News Agency.

President Trump announced Wednesday that his administration would unleash the “most crushing economic operation ever” against Iran amid ongoing negotiations to reopen the Strait of Hormuz.

“Oil smuggling, swap lines, cash transfers, exchange houses, ship registries, front companies — It all needs to stop NOW. You know who you are,” the president wrote in a Truth Social post.

“This will be an ECONOMIC D-DAY, and we need all of our Allies to stand with the United States of America to isolate, and defeat, the Iran threat,” Trump continued.

The trading passage, which carries around a fifth of the world’s oil consumption on a daily basis during peacetime, has been effectively closed due to Iranian counterstrikes and a U.S. naval blockade.

Iran and Oman have joint jurisdiction over this critical waterway, but Trump has threatened to make the strait a U.S. territory amid these ongoing talks.

Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is expected to unveil details of the new economic sanctions on Monday.

“It is a one-two punch. We have ​the blockade, and we are going to have the toughest sanctions in history,” the secretary told ​CNBC on Thursday. “It is going to work in Iran and we are going to collapse this ⁠regime.”

Iranian Foreign Affairs Minister Abbas Araghchi decried these anticipated economic penalties on Thursday, suggesting they were a means for the Trump administration to distract from domestic concerns about the cost of living.

“The so-called “Economic D-Day” is a diversion from America’s own crisis: unprecedented debt & surging interest costs,” the Iranian official wrote on social media . “Doubling down on failed policies will only bring further defeat—and enmity of Iranians. US economic terrorism threatens global economy and sovereignty worldwide.”