Ministry Condemns Trump’s Shameful Anti-Iran Remarks at Israeli Knesset

The Iranian Foreign Ministry strongly condemned the US president’s “baseless, irresponsible and shameful” remarks against Iran at the Israeli Knesset, slamming the US as “the world’s largest generator of terrorism” and the main backer of the terrorist and genocidal Zionist regime.

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In a statement issued on Tuesday, the Foreign Ministry said the US has no moral authority to accuse others, given its long record of terrorism, interventionism, and complicity in the Israeli regime’s crimes against Palestinians.

The statement paid tribute to late commander Lt. General Qassem Soleimani, calling him an “eternal hero of Iran and the region” who played an unparalleled role in defeating US-sponsored Daesh terrorism, and reaffirmed that the Iranian people “will never forgive or forget” Washington’s “brutal crime” in assassinating him and his companions.

Rejecting repeated US allegations about Iran’s peaceful nuclear program, the ministry said such falsehoods cannot justify “joint crimes by the American and Zionist regimes” against Iran’s sovereignty and citizens. It added that boasting of such actions only “deepens the US government’s guilt and exposes the depth of its hostility toward the Iranian nation.”

The statement also condemned US complicity in the genocide and aggression perpetrated by the Zionist regime in occupied Palestine, demanding that Washington be held accountable for shielding the Israeli regime from international justice and obstructing any effective action against it at the UN Security Council.

The United States’ interventionist policies in the region, its support for the occupation and crimes of the genocidal Israeli regime, along with the unrestricted sale of arms to the region, have turned America into the greatest source of instability and insecurity in the region, the statement added.

The ministry said that the US president’s claim to seek peace and dialogue stands in stark contradiction to Washington’s hostile and criminal actions against the Iranian people.

"How can one, in the midst of political negotiations, attack a country's residential areas and peaceful nuclear facilities, kill more than a thousand people — including innocent women and children — and then claim to seek peace and friendship?" the statement said.

The Foreign Ministry concluded that Iranians, rooted in their rich historical culture, are “a people of logic, dialogue and interaction,” yet will always defend their independence, national dignity and supreme interests with courage and determination./tasnim