From Tehran calls US diplomacy on nuclear issue ‘disingenuine and preposterous’
Lazar Berman is The Times of Israel's diplomatic reporter
This picture shows a magazine front page at a kiosk in Tehran on April 19, 2025, featuring the Iran-US talks on the Iranian nuclear program set to begin in Rome on the same day. (Atta Kenare/ AFP)
After US President Donald Trump calls Iran “the world’s number one sponsor of terror” in his UN speech, and boasts about the US strike on Tehran’s nuclear facilities, Iran calls US claims that it tried to reach a diplomatic solution “preposterous.”
“The United States claim of offering diplomacy is simply disingenuine [sic] and preposterous; you cannot bomb a country amidst ongoing diplomatic negotiations and offer peace,” says Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqai on X.
He accuses the US of “direct participation & complicity in Israel’s ongoing genocide of Palestinians, systematic terrorism and continuing aggressions against many States.”
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