Iran President Pezeshkian says "The war must end at some point, it is better to end the war today, when we are in power and dignity and the whole world acknowledges our victory", IRIB reports

• "The war must end at some point, it is better to end the war today, when we are in power and dignity and the whole world acknowledges our victory".
• "Some people are sitting outside the hole because they do not know what the government is in, they comment and analyze without any bias, they have not suffered any suffering and hardship and then they talk about high prices".

Statements of this kind from Iranian leadership sit within the well-worn pattern of de-escalation signalling dressed as victory declaration: officials historically frame any move toward ceasefire or negotiation as strength for domestic consumption, and the substance lies in whether the language marks an actual off-ramp or is rhetorical positioning. The 'end the war today' framing, attributed through state media, is the type of line that in comparable episodes has preceded either genuine negotiation tracks or simply a pause in hostilities rhetoric with no follow-through; the tell has typically been whether parallel channels, intermediaries, or counterparts on the other side echo the overture within days. The reference to domestic critics and high prices is notable, since acknowledgement of economic strain at home has in past Middle East conflict episodes been one of the more reliable precursors to actual de-escalation, governments tending to open the door when the domestic cost becomes the binding constraint. For crude, the established pattern is that credible de-escalation language compresses the geopolitical risk premium embedded in the front of the curve, with the size of the unwind depending on how much premium was priced and whether physical flows through Gulf shipping lanes were ever actually disrupted or only threatened. Worth noting that Pezeshkian is regarded as the more pragmatic figure in the Iranian system, and remarks from him alone have historically carried less weight than alignment with the security establishment and the supreme leader's office. The follow-ons are whether other Iranian institutions and the opposing side pick up the line, and any change in tanker, insurance, or freight behaviour in the Gulf as a real-world read on whether participants believe it.