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Iran: US has ‘no moral authority’ to cast aspersions on others
Araghchi: Trump cannot be man of peace while ‘provoking endless wars’
Iran’s Foreign Ministry categorically censured US president’s anti-Tehran allegations during his Monday’s speech in the Israeli parliament (Knesset) as “unfounded and shameful,” saying Washington has “no moral authority” to level accusations against Tehran.
The US as “the world’s largest producer of terrorism” and the supporter of the “terrorist and genocidal Zionist regime” — has no moral authority to level accusations against others, the ministry said in a statement on Tuesday.
In an address to the Israeli Knesset on Monday, Donald Trump claimed that "nothing would do more good" for the region than for Iran's leaders to what he called “renounce terrorists and stop threatening their neighbors.”
He also alleged that the US wants “to ensure that Iran never, and I mean never, acquires a nuclear weapon.”
The US president, however, offered a “hand of friendship” to Iran.
“We are ready when you are, and it will be the best decision that Iran has ever made, and it’s going to happen,” Trump claimed.
"You know it would be great if we could make a peace deal with them," Trump said of Iran during a speech to Israel's parliament.
Call for ‘peace deal’
Trump’s plea for a peace deal came just months after his country joined Israel in striking Iran’s nuclear sites and civilian infrastructure in June, which triggered a 12-day war that killed at least 1,064 Iranians.
The ministry said Trump’s expressed desire for peace and dialogue is “in conflict with the hostile and criminal actions of the United States against the Iranian people.”
“How can one, in the midst of political negotiations, attack a country’s residential areas and peaceful nuclear facilities, martyr over one thousand innocent people, including women and children, and then claim to seek peace and friendship?” the statement asked.
Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi also reacted to Trump’s remarks, saying that Iranians cannot trust the country that attacked their homes.
“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,” Araghchi said.
“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,” he added.
Iran’s peaceful nuclear program
Meanwhile, the Foreign Ministry in its statement warned that repeating false claims about Iran’s peaceful nuclear program cannot in any way justify “the joint crimes” of the US and Israel, including attacks on Iran’s soil and the assassination of Iran’s scientists and military commanders.
The statement added that boasting of and admitting to such crimes “only increases the burden of responsibility on the US for committing these crimes and reveals the depth of hostility American policymakers hold toward the great people of Iran.”
The statement underscored that Iranians are people of reason, dialogue and engagement, but will “act with courage and decisiveness to defend Iran’s independence, national dignity and vital interests.”
The US president arrived in the occupied territories on Monday before his visit to Egypt, where he attended a ceremony to sign a cease-fire deal on the Gaza Strip.