US to blame for global chaos, committing acts of piracy: Pezeshkian
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on Tuesday took a swipe at the United States, pinning the blame on Washington for a chaotic world created as a result of its foreign policy. “If politics is reduced to power, the result is today’s world: chaos, oppression, injustice, and piracy,” Pezeshkian wrote on social media platform X, with no direct mention of the US.
However, he was apparently referring to a controversial comment by US President Donald Trump who said on Friday that the American Navy was acting “like pirates” to enforce a naval blockade on Iranian ports. “We’re like pirates,” Trump said at a rally in Florida as he described an operation seizing a tanker carrying Iranian oil. “We’re sort of like pirates. But we’re not playing games,” he added.
“We … land on top of it and we took over the ship. We took over the cargo, took over the oil. It’s a very profitable business,” Trump said.
The Trump administration announced the blockade last month after talks in Pakistan failed to achieve a breakthrough to end a war the US and Israel waged against the Islamic Republic in late February.
Pezeshkian praised Iranian politics in which ethics overrule power.
“In our national ethos and religious worldview, power without ethics is hollow,” he said.
“Today Iran represents ethical, responsible power; its enemies embody reckless & unchecked force,” the president added.