Iran’s FM: If Trump’s Tel Aviv pets ignore their master, ‘Iran will school them’

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi warns that the US-Iran memorandum of understanding obligates US President Donald Trump to “muzzle” Israel and prevent it from militarily threatening Iran, in response to remarks by Defense Minister Israel Katz.

“The terms of the Islamabad MoU are crystal clear and public for all to see. POTUS has committed the US to muzzling its pets in Tel Aviv. If they ignore their master, Iran will school them. Any threat against our People and Leadership will receive Immediate Powerful Response,” Araghchi warns in a post on X.

The terms of the Islamabad MoU are crystal clear and public for all to see.

POTUS has committed the U.S. to muzzling its pets in Tel Aviv. If they ignore their master, Iran will school them.

Any threat against our People and Leadership will receive Immediate Powerful Response. pic.twitter.com/VrKa259gYd

— Seyed Abbas Araghchi (@araghchi) July 1, 2026

The comments come in response to remarks Katz made in a briefing with Israeli military reporters on Monday, warning that Iran’s wartime-elected supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei was “marked for death,” and that while Tehran is attempting to “extract concessions” in its talks with Washington, Israel “will not allow Iran to develop nuclear weapons. If an agreement achieves that, all the better.”

The MOU declared that the US, Iran, “and their allies” would cease hostilities “on all fronts,” but Israeli officials have stressed that Jerusalem is not a signatory to the agreement and have vowed to continue to act to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon, even as Washington stresses its pursuit of a “regional ceasefire” and its preference for a diplomatic solution to the conflict.