Iran’s FM rebukes Trump’s remarks at Knesset and Sharm el-Sheikh
Tehran - BORNA - Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has strongly responded to remarks made by U.S. President Donald Trump during his recent speeches at the Israeli Knesset and the Sharm el-Sheikh summit, saying that Trump “can either be a president of peace or a president of war — he cannot be both.”
In a post on his account on X (formerly Twitter), Araghchi wrote that it has now become entirely clear that “the President of the United States has been misled by false information suggesting that Iran’s peaceful nuclear program was on the verge of becoming weaponized earlier this spring.” He added that “this claim is nothing but a big lie,” noting that even U.S. intelligence assessments have confirmed there is no evidence to support it.
Araghchi emphasized that Trump entered the White House promising the American people and the world that he would end Israel’s decades-long manipulation of successive U.S. presidents and ensure that American forces would no longer be drawn into endless wars — wars designed by the same warmongers who sabotaged U.S. nuclear diplomacy with Iran for years.
“The real bully in West Asia,” Araghchi said, “is the actor that has long exploited and manipulated the United States for its own parasitic existence.”
The Iranian foreign minister questioned how the Iranian people could trust an “olive branch” from someone who only four months ago authorized the bombing of residential areas across Iran. “Those criminal attacks claimed the lives of more than one thousand Iranians, including women and children,” he said. “It is difficult to call someone a president of peace when he fuels endless wars and stands alongside war criminals.”
Araghchi reiterated that the Islamic Republic of Iran has always been ready for respectful and reciprocal diplomatic engagement. “The Iranian people — rightful heirs to an ancient and rich civilization — respond to goodwill with goodwill,” he said. “At the same time, we know precisely how to resist and confront oppression and coercion; a lesson that the dark warmongers in Tel Aviv have learned the hard way.”
However, he noted one point of agreement with the U.S. President: “Mr. Trump is right in saying that Iran should not serve as an excuse for normalizing ties with Israel. Anyone who seeks to sacrifice the Palestinian people and ally with a genocidal entity hungry to swallow the entire region must have the courage to take full responsibility before their own people — instead of blaming others.”
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