Live: Iran's President Pezeshkian says US ‘must choose’ whether to end war

Home Americas Issued on: 25/09/2026 - 01:52 1 min Reading time Masoud Pezeshkian was due to meet Vladimir Putin © Vyacheslav PROKOFYEV, AFP It is for the United States to choose whether to end its war in Iran as Tehran does not wish to continue fighting, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian told Fox News in an interview aired Thursday. Pezeshkian took a defiant stand at the UN Wednesday, for which he travelled to New York, telling the world that Iran would not "bend at the knee" to Washington Follow our liveblog for the latest updates. Yesterday's key developments: British ⁠Foreign ​Secretary ​Ed Miliband told Iran's foreign ​minister ‌Abbas ⁠Araqchi ‌in a meeting that ⁠the UK will "not ​tolerate intimidation, ‌threats or hostile activity ‌on ​UK soil" from groups linked ​to ​his country. President Emmanuel Macron said France would send "military means" to help shield the key Saudi oil terminal of Yanbu from attacks by Yemen's Iran-backed Houthis. Chinese ⁠President ​Xi Jinping ​said during a meeting with US ​President ‌Donald ⁠Trump at ‌the White House that China supports ​the US ‌and Iran returning to a ‌June deal ​that was meant to end the ​war and ​open the ​Strait of Hormuz, ​Xinhua news agency said. (FRANCE 24 with AFP, AP and Reuters) Keywords for this article