Tehran, June 14 -- Iranian President Pezeshkian said that the national solidarity of the country's people during the 12-day conflict with Israel compelled Israel to seek a ceasefire, according to Iran's state news agency IRNA.

In a message on Saturday marking the first anniversary of the conflict with Israel, Pezeshkian paid tribute to those killed during it and said that Israel "had miscalculated" the impact of its "attacks" on Iran.

The president said that Israel had "assumed" that the strikes targeting senior military commanders and strategic facilities would "weaken the Iranian nation and destabilise the Islamic Republic." However, he said, "the resistance shown by the Iranian people," alongwith the leadership of the late Supreme Le...