Iran President Says Forces Told Not to Attack Nearby States

Iran’s president said he has instructed the military not to attack any country that isn’t striking the Islamic Republic, even as projectiles continued to be fired at the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and other states.

Masoud Pezeshkian said in a speech on Saturday that Iran’s interim leadership council took the decision a day earlier. Yet there was no sign of Iranian forces easing off their strikes on Arab Gulf countries, none of which have joined the week-long US-Israel bombardment of the Islamic Republic.