Two days before Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s is expected to pitch President Trump on a new round of war with Iran, Iran’s president says the United States, Israel and Europe are already waging “full-fledged war” on Iran, and that a return to kinetic warfare will result in a “more decisive response” than the retaliation witnessed during June’s 12-day war.  Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian’s comments came in a 6,600-word interview published on the official website of the country’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Khamenei. The wide-ranging discussion addressed the full spectrum of challenges the country is facing, including internal political, social, economic and cultural ones.  The “war” quote that’s making headlines came in the midst of a discussion of Iran’s attempt to make the most of finite energy resources, and immediately followed Pezeshkian’s listing of the many small ways he said he personally economizes with state resources, from ordering radiators be turned off in offices he seldom uses, to shutting down a heated swimming pool that was dedicated for his own use. Then, he pivoted, putting Iran’s struggles in the context of Israeli-Western efforts to weaken the country, from economic sanctions to attempting to foster internal discontent: “In my opinion, we are in a full-fledged war […]