Tehran, June 10 -- Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on Wednesday said that Iran must move beyond a prolonged state of "neither war nor peace", revealing that Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei had allowed negotiations and dialogue to continue as a means of resolving the situation, as per the Iranian news agency ISNA.

As reported by ISNA, speaking at the third "Amin Iran" ceremony at Tehran's Vahdat Hall in memory of the "martyred leader", Pezeshkian stressed that military confrontation was not in Iran's interest but insisted the country would not yield to external pressure.

"We must get out of the 'neither war nor peace' policy. War is definitely not in the country's interest, but if they attack our land and territory, we will def...