Pezeshkian’s Fox interview Baier asks about war

Feb 28

Bret Baier interviews Pezeshkian about negotiations, the June memorandum, ship attacks and command authority. Pezeshkian disputes protest death figures, describes meeting the supreme leader and denies knowledge of Chinese imagery alleged to have helped target a deadly Jordan strike. He offers uranium dilution and verification within an agreement, acknowledges economic hardship and rejects surrender. Baier challenges the answers with competing accounts; disputed casualty figures, responsibility and conditional proposals remain attributed.

The U.S.–Israeli military campaign against Iran began on February 28. In Fox's September 22 interview, Jack Keane recalls Operation Epic Fury beginning alongside Israel and says Iran closed Hormuz on March 2, 'three days' afterward. He links that closure to the subsequent ceasefire and stalled diplomacy. His relative-day wording is retained as his account rather than used to derive a different opening date. In his September 24 Fox interview, Pezeshkian rejects the idea that Iran chose or started the war and frames Iran's actions as self-defense. Asked about Iran's demands, he recalls the killing of the supreme leader, scientists, commanders and officials in attacks he calls unjustified. These are his responsibility and legal assessments, not independently settled findings. Netanyahu's September 24 justification for military and nuclear strikes is a separate public statement: its recalled operations are not all dated in the footage, so they do not establish coverage of this particular opening occurrence. In his October 1 Denton retrospective, Trump says he ordered a detour from his economic agenda because Iran was allegedly three to four weeks, perhaps less, from a nuclear weapon. He says action was necessary to prevent attacks on Israel, the Middle East and beyond, and contrasts forecast oil-price spikes with his claimed current price. This supplies his own necessity/nuclear-risk justification alongside Keane's strategic chronology and Pezeshkian's imposed-war/self-defense position; the alleged imminence and responsibility assessments remain attributed.