Iran Compares Trump Admin to Nazis After SOTU Threat
The spokesman for the Iranian foreign ministry compared the U.S. administration to the top Nazi propagandist after President Donald Trump again warned Tehran against pursuing a nuclear weapon in his State of the Union address to Congress.
Trump has ordered a massive military build-up in the Middle East and threatened to strike Iran if it does not make a new nuclear deal with the U.S. Tehran denies seeking to build a nuclear bomb.
“Professional liars are good at creating the ‘illusion of truth’,” Esmaeil Baqaei, spokesman for the Iranian foreign ministry, said in a post on X after Trump’s address.
“”Repeat a lie often enough and it becomes the truth’, is a law of propaganda coined by Nazi Joseph Goebbels. This is now systematically used by the U.S. administration and the war profiteers encircling it, particularly the genocidal Israeli regime, to serve their sinister disinformation & misinformation campaign against the Nation of Iran.
“Whatever they’re alleging in regards to Iran’s nuclear program, Iran’s ballistic missiles, and the number of casualties during January’s unrest is simply the repetition of ‘big lies’. No one should be fooled by these prominent untruths.”
A new set of U.S.-Iran diplomatic talks is slated for Thursday in Geneva. The nuclear issue is top of the agenda, but the U.S. also wants to discuss Iran’s ballistic missile capabilities and its support for proxy militias in the Middle East.
They want to make a deal, but we haven’t heard those secret words: ‘We will never have a nuclear weapon,'” Trump said during his speech on Tuesday.
“My preference is to solve this problem through diplomacy, but one thing is certain, I will never allow the world’s number one sponsor of terror, which they are by far, to have a nuclear weapon,” he added.
“And no one should ever doubt America’s resolve. We have the most powerful military on Earth.”
Trump also warned of the dangers posed by Iran’s missile program and boasted about the unprecedented strikes, known as Operation Midnight Hammer, that he ordered against three Iranian nuclear facilities during the 12-Day War between Iran and Israel last June.
He alleged that Iran is making renewed efforts to develop a nuclear bomb, despite Tehran’s repeated denials.
“They’ve already developed missiles that can threaten Europe and our bases overseas, and they’re working to build missiles that will soon reach the United States of America,” Trump said.
“After Midnight Hammer, they were warned to make no future attempts to rebuild their weapons program, in particular, nuclear weapons. Yet they continue starting it all over.”
“We wiped it all out and they want to start all over again,” Trump added, “and are at this moment again pursuing their sinister ambitions.”
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