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Iran warns Trump to speak with respect or face ‘different language’
Iran’s secretary of the Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) advised the US president to speak to the Iranian people with respect after Donald Trump renewed military threats against Iran if no deal is reached between the two countries.
Speaking to reporters in the Oval Office, US President Donald Trump said Monday that the US will win the Iran war "one way or the other."
"We're either going to make a deal, or we're going to finish the job. It won't be tough to finish the job," Trump declared.
In a statement issued on Monday, the SNSC’s secretary Mohammad Bagher Zolghadr directly addressed the US president, describing him as “delusional” for threatening Iran’s 91 million people.
“To the delusional President of America, who today threatened 91 million Iranians, I say: Previously, as the president of a rootless country with a mere 250-year history, you spoke in similar terms about erasing Iran’s several-thousand-year-old civilization. The only result for you was defeat, helplessness, and desperate pleas for negotiations and ceasefire,” Zolghadr said.
He emphasized that Iranians are unfamiliar with and unmoved by the language of threats from foreigners.
“Iranians are not familiar with the language of threats. Therefore, speak to the Iranian people with respect; otherwise, we will respond to you in a different language,” the senior official warned.
Iran and the US signed a 14-point Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on June 17 to end a US-Israeli aggression against Iran, which began in February. The agreement is not a final peace agreement, but rather an interim framework intended to end recent hostilities and create a roadmap for negotiating a comprehensive deal within 60 days.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi also said on Tuesday that neither the Iranian people nor the armed forces will be moved by threats.
After attending the funeral ceremony of the martyred Leader in Qom on Tuesday, Araghchi wrote in a post on his X account that millions of proud Iranians gathered in unity to pay tribute to Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei and his enduring legacy.
“Neither them nor our Brave Armed Forces are moved by any threats,” he said.