Iran on Tuesday denounced “baseless claims” made by US President Donald Trump and called Washington “the biggest sponsor of terrorism.”
Addressing Israel’s Knesset on Monday before joining an international peace summit in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt, Trump said Iran wants to reach a peace deal with the United States “even if they said, ‘We don’t want to make a deal.'”
In a statement released by the state news agency. IRNAthe Foreign Ministry said: “The United States, as the world’s largest generator of terrorism and supporter of the terrorist and genocidal Zionist (Israeli) regime, has no moral authority to level accusations against others.”
“The repetition of false claims about Iran’s peaceful nuclear program cannot in any way justify the joint crimes of the United States and the Zionist regime” in violating Iran’s soil, the ministry said.
Israel launched a surprise attack on Tehran on June 13, targeting military, nuclear and civilian facilities, as well as senior military commanders and nuclear scientists.
Tehran launched retaliatory strikes with missiles and drones, while the United States bombed three Iranian nuclear facilities. The 12-day conflict came to an end thanks to a US-sponsored ceasefire that took effect on June 24.
The ministry called for holding Washington accountable for its role “in impunity” for Israel, “including preventing any effective action against Israel in the UN Security Council and obstructing international judicial processes aimed at prosecuting Israeli criminals.”
Since October 2023, Israeli strikes have killed more than 67,800 Palestinians in Gaza, most of them women and children, leaving the enclave largely uninhabitable. The first phase of a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas came into effect on Friday.
