Iran's president defies US demands while apologizing for strikes on neighbors

Iran’s president said Saturday that a demand by the United States for an unconditional surrender is a “dream that they should take to their grave."

President Masoud Pezeshkian made the statement in a prerecorded address aired by state television.

He also apologized for Iran’s attacks on regional countries, saying that Tehran would halt them and suggesting they were caused by miscommunication in the ranks. He blamed the killing of the country's supreme leader and other top officials for what sounded like a loss of command and control in the armed forces in recent days.