Esmaeil Baqaei, in a post on his X account, rejected Trump’s latest remarks, which relied on an outdated interview with a former Iranian lawmaker to allege that Iran has sought a nuclear weapon.
“When, in his persistent effort to justify America’s unlawful attack on Iran’s peaceful nuclear facilities, the President of the United States of America, Donald John Trump, chooses to ignore the March 2025 testimony of his own DNI before Congress—affirming that ‘THE IC CONTINUES TO ASSESS THAT IRAN IS NOT BUILDING A NUCLEAR WEAPON’—and instead leans on the personal analysis of an Iranian citizen from 2022, he exposes the political, not factual, nature of his claims,” the spokesperson said.
Iran has consistently rejected Western allegations of pursuing nukes, pointing out that such claims have been used as a pretext for sanctions, sabotage, and unlawful military attacks on its nuclear facilities.