Iranian parliament speaker Mohammad-Bagher Ghalibaf, a hardliner with whom the US is negotiating, says that the Middle East “will burn” because US President Donald Trump is following the commands of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
“Your reckless moves are dragging the United States into a living HELL for every single family, and our whole region is going to burn because you insist on following Netanyahu’s commands,” writes Ghalibaf in English on X, an apparent response to Trump’s threats earlier today that Iran will “be living in Hell” if it does not open the Strait of Hormuz.
“Make no mistake: You won’t gain anything through war crimes,” he says, after Trump repeated threats to bomb Iran’s power plants and bridges.
The former IRGC officer with whom Trump says the US is in contact has been responding on X in English to Trump in a similar style to the president, copying his language and repeating tropes about Israeli control over US foreign policy.
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