The Iranian president says his country will not be threatened by threat, just as Trump accused Tehran of having committed a proxy war.
Iranian President Masuud Pezeschkian said his country would not “resign as a bully” in response to President Donald Trump’s criticism of Tehran during the ongoing three-day Gulf tour.
“He (Trump) thinks he can come here, chant slogans and scare us. For us, martialism is much sweeter than dying in bed. Have you come to scare us?
Earlier in the day, during the GCC summit in Riyadh, Trump said while he wanted to make a deal with Iran, the country “must stop the terrifying sponsorship, stop the bloody proxy war, and stop the pursuit of nuclear weapons in a permanent and genuine way.”
Washington and Tehran held four conferences mediated by Oman to reach a deal on the latter nuclear program.
While attending a state dinner in Doha’s Qatar capital on Wednesday, Trump reiterated his publicly stated desire for a peaceful resolution on Iran’s nuclear program, suggesting that Ball was in the Tehran courthouse.
“It’s a dangerous situation and we want to do the right thing,” Trump said. “We want to do something that will save perhaps millions of lives.
On Tuesday, Trump said he “want to do business with Iran,” but “if the Iranian leader rejects this olive branch… we have no choice but to put in large max pressure.” He added that he would not allow Iran to have nuclear weapons.
Successive US administrations have tried to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. The sustainable efforts by world powers during the Barack Obama administration reached its peak with a 2015 agreement called the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA).
However, when Trump took over President Obama as President of the United States, he unilaterally withdrew the United States from the nuclear deal in 2018, causing the deal to collapse.
Despite ongoing talks, the Trump administration continues to impose sanctions on Iran.
On Wednesday, the US issued sanctions targeting Iran for efforts to manufacture domestic components of ballistic missiles, the U.S. Treasury Department said.
The sanctions targeted six individuals and 12 entities for what the Ministry of Finance said was “their involvement in efforts to procure the production of critical materials needed for Tehran’s ballistic missile programme within the country.”