TEHRAN, May 16 (NNN-IRNA) – Iranian President, Masoud Pezeshkian, has strongly condemned recent anti-Tehran remarks by U.S. President Donald Trump, calling them evidence of Trump’s failure to understand the true character of the Iranian people.
Pezeshkian made the remarks during a meeting with Iranian elites and cultural figures, in the western province of Kermanshah on Wednesday evening, following Trump’s comments in Riyadh the day before, said a statement posted on his office’s website.
On Tuesday, Trump denounced Iran as “the most destructive force” in the Middle East and accused it of fueling regional instability, vowing that the United States would never allow it to acquire a nuclear weapon.
In response, Pezeshkian said, the remarks revealed Trump’s failure to grasp the Iranian people’s “truth, honour, magnanimity and selflessness.”
He added that, while Trump portrayed Iran as a source of regional insecurity, thousands of Palestinian women and children, had been killed in the Israeli barbaric bombardments of Gaza, where residents have also been deprived of water and medicine.
Pezeshkian said, for the past 47 years, the United States and its allies have strained every nerve and sinew, to bring Iran’s government and people to their knees, but they have failed, and will never succeed.
Expressing confidence in Iran’s resilience, he said, the country would continue to advance by relying on its scientists, intellectuals and entrepreneurs. He added that, while Iran does not seek war, it will never trade its honour and glory for the sake of peace.
Meanwhile, Iran’s Foreign Ministry issued a statement late Wednesday, condemning Trump’s comments as “false, divisive and deliberately misleading.” It accused Trump of attempting to deflect international attention from Israel’s brutal actions in the region.
The statement added that, while the inhuman Israeli regime was committing “the most heinous genocide” in the occupied Palestinian territories, along with “terrorist acts and war crimes” against Lebanon, Syria and Yemen, through repeated violations of their sovereignty and territorial integrity, the U.S. president “brazenly” blamed Iran for the devastation in these countries.
Trump’s remarks came, after Iranian and U.S. delegations held the fourth round of indirect talks on Iran’s nuclear programme, and U.S. sanctions on Iran, in Muscat, the capital of Oman, on Sunday.– NNN-IRNA
