Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baqaei said in a post on X that reviewing the historical record of US actions toward Iran was sufficient to expose the true meaning of America’s professed “sympathy” for the Iranian nation.
“It is enough to review the long record of actions by American politicians to ‘save the Iranian people’ to understand the depth of US ‘empathy’ with the Iranian nation,” Baqaei wrote.
He cited the US-backed 1953 coup against the elected government of Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh, the downing of an Iranian passenger plane in 1988 that killed women and children over the Persian Gulf, Washington’s full support for Saddam Hussein during the eight-year war against Iran, and complicity with Israeli regime in the killing of Iranians and attacks on Iran’s infrastructure in June 2025.
He also pointed to the “most severe sanctions in history” wrongfully imposed on Iran, adding that current threats of military action under the pretext of caring for Iranians constituted a “blatant violation of the most fundamental principle of international law.”
“Iranians will solve their problems through dialogue and interaction with one another and will not allow any form of foreign interference,” Baqaei said.
Earlier on Friday, US President Donald Trump repeated accusations against Iran and voiced support for recent unrest, claiming that Iranian authorities were firing on what he described as “peaceful protesters.”
In a post on his Truth Social account, Trump said that if Iran were to shoot at peaceful protesters, the United States would intervene to “save them.”
“We are locked and loaded and ready to go,” Trump wrote.