Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi hit out at US President Donald Trump, stating that the latter has spread falsehoods about Iran’s nuclear programme and is siding with what he termed “war criminals.”
In a post on X, Araghchi said that Trump cannot be a “President of Peace” while pursuing conflict. He also lashed out at Israel, calling it “the real bully of the Middle East.”
The Iranian Foreign Minister posted on X, “It is more than clear by now that POTUS has been badly fed the fake line that Iran’s peaceful nuclear program was on the verge of weaponization this spring. That is simply a BIG LIE and he should have been informed that there is zero proof of that, as confirmed by his own intelligence community.
POTUS came into office promising Americans and the world that he would put a stop to Israel’s serial deception of U.S. Presidents; that the U.S. military would no longer be suckered into Forever Wars plotted by warmongers who have also derailed American nuclear diplomacy with Iran for many years.
The real bully of the Middle East, Mr. President, is the same parasitic actor that has long been bullying and milking the United States.
There is also the question of how the Iranian Nation can be expected to give any credence to an olive branch extended by the very same hand that was involved in the bombardment of homes and offices across Iran only 4 months ago. Those criminal strikes claimed the lives of more than 1,000 Iranians—including women and children. One can hardly be branded as President of Peace while provoking endless WARS and aligning with WAR criminals. Mr. Trump can either be a President of Peace or a President of War, but he cannot be both at the same time.
Iran has always been open to respectful and mutually beneficial diplomatic engagement; the noble heirs of an ancient rich civilization, the Iranian People respond to good will with good will. We also know exactly how to resist and fight back against injustice and imposition, as the miserable warmonger in Tel Aviv has found out the hard way.
But there is one thing that we can agree on with POTUS: he is right in saying that Iran should not be used as a pretext regarding normalization with Israel. If someone wants to throw the Palestinians under the bus while embracing a genocidal entity that thirsts to devour the whole region, they should have the guts to take full responsibility for it in front of their people and not blame others.”
It is more than clear by now that POTUS has been badly fed the fake line that Iran’s peaceful nuclear program was on the verge of weaponization this spring. That is simply a BIG LIE and he should have been informed that there is zero proof of that, as confirmed by his own…
— Seyed Abbas Araghchi (@araghchi) October 14, 2025
Last week, US President Donald Trump spoke about the strikes on Iran’s nuclear facilities earlier this year, noting that Iran was close to developing nuclear weapons and if that had happened then the Gaza peace deal would not have been possible.
He made the remarks in an interview to Fox News.
Trump said, “Iran was about one month, maybe two months away from having a nuclear weapon, and if I allowed that to happen, this deal would not have been possible or if it was, it would have a tremendous cloud over it because you have a country with a nuclear weapon that was obviously not very friendly and the power of nuclear weapons is something we shouldn’t even be talking about… so it’s a very much different Iran”.
He further added that the efforts towards the peace deal brought the world together and had Iran gotten the nuclear weapon, there would have been a dark cloud over the peace progress.
