Iranian leader says Israel will fight 'to last US tax dollar', as US weighs invasion Submitted by Sean Mathews on Wed, 04/01/2026 - 21:10 President Masoud Pezeshkian's letter to the American people comes just before Trump is expected to make an announcement about the war Smoke rises from the site of a strike in Tehran, on 1 April 2026 (AFP) Off Israel plans to fight Iran “to the last American soldier and the last American taxpayer dollar”, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian wrote in an open letter released on Wednesday, hours before US President Donald Trump is set to deliver a primetime address on the war. Pezeshkian's letter, addressed to the American people and published on PressTV, says that they were being fed an image of Iran crafted by a “machinery of misinformation” and how portraying Iran as a threat was "neither consistent with historical reality nor with present-day observable facts”. “Iran has never initiated a war,” he wrote. “Yet it has resolutely and bravely repelled those who have attacked it. The Iranian people harbor no enmity toward other nations, including the people of America, Europe, or neighboring countries.” The letter comes hours before US President Donald Trump is set to deliver a primetime address anticipated to offer insights into how the war will develop. The Trump administration has sent mixed signals. The US president spoke earlier in the day with his Emirati counterpart, Mohamed bin Zayed. The UAE has emerged as one of the most hawkish Gulf states on Iran. Middle East Eye previously reported that it was prepared for the war to last up to nine months and was pushing for a more aggressive US posture. The call comes as European states and Bahrain are drafting different proposals for how to wrest control of the Strait of Hormuz from Iran. The UK plans to host talks on a coalition to police the Strait of Hormuz, and another measure is being discussed at the United Nations. Analysts and diplomats are specula