Sri Lanka, March 7 -- Iran's president said Saturday his country will never surrender, as its military continued to trade strikes with Israel, and aim retaliatory fire at a number of Gulf nations.

Masoud Pezeshkian spoke less than a day after US President Donald Trump said his government wouldn't negotiate with Tehran without its "UNCONDITIONAL SURRENDER."

But in a televised address on state TV, Pezeshkian said: "They will take their dreams of our unconditional surrender to the grave."

Since the killing of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei a week ago, a three-person leadership council holds power until a successor is named. It includes Pezeshkian - a relative moderate - as well as the hardline head of the judiciary Gholamhossein Mohseni Eje...