Araghchi Responds to Trump: Iran and the U.S. Agree on One Key Point

Reacting to Trump’s comments about Iran’s nuclear program, Araghchi wrote that it has now become entirely clear that the U.S. president has been misled by false information suggesting Iran’s peaceful nuclear program was on the verge of weaponization earlier this year. “This claim is nothing but a gross falsehood,” he stated, adding that the U.S. intelligence community itself has confirmed there is no evidence to support such allegations.

Araghchi reminded that President Trump entered the White House pledging to end Israel’s repeated deceit of successive U.S. presidents and to keep the American military out of endless wars—wars designed by warmongers who had long undermined U.S. nuclear diplomacy with Iran.

“The true bully in West Asia,” Araghchi continued, “is the very actor that has long exploited the United States through its parasitic existence and continues to dictate its will to Washington.”

He questioned how the Iranian people could trust a peace offering from someone who, just four months ago, authorized the bombing of Iranian homes and urban areas. “Those criminal attacks took the lives of more than a thousand Iranians, including women and children,” Araghchi wrote. “It is difficult to call anyone a ‘president of peace’ while he fuels endless wars and stands alongside war criminals. Mr. Trump can be either a president of peace or a president of war—but not both.”

Araghchi reaffirmed that Iran has always been open to “respectful and reciprocal diplomatic engagement.” He said the Iranian people, heirs to an ancient and profound civilization, respond to goodwill with goodwill—but also know well how to resist oppression and coercion. “This is a hard-learned lesson for the ill-fated warmongers in Tel Aviv,” he added.

He concluded by noting that Iran and the United States do, in fact, share one point of agreement. “President Trump is right on one matter: Iran must not be used as a pretext for normalizing ties with Israel,” Araghchi said. “If anyone seeks to sacrifice the Palestinian people and ally themselves with a genocidal entity intent on swallowing the entire region, they must have the courage to bear full responsibility before their own people—without shifting the blame onto others.”