Iran’s President Says Iranians Will Never Surrender

The venue matters as much as the message: Pezeshkian is delivering a defiance narrative from New Delhi, ahead of a BRICS summit, rather than from Tehran or a Western capital. That framing places Iran's confrontation with the US and Israel within the broader bloc of non-Western states the summit convenes, where Iran has sought diplomatic and economic cover. For markets, the signal is that Tehran sees no near-term de-escalation path and is investing in alternative alignments. Whether BRICS members translate that alignment into concrete energy, trade or settlement arrangements is the open question.