President Donald Trump briefly tried to make a case for attacking Iran during his Feb. 24 State of the Union address. “The (Iranian) regime and its murderous proxies have spread nothing but terrorism and death and hate,” he claimed about 90 minutes into his speech. He accused Iran of restarting its nuclear program–contradicting his own claim, repeated numerous times, of having obliterated it last June—working to build missiles that “soon” would be capable of reaching the United States and of being responsible for roadside bombings that have killed U.S. service members and civilians.
Trump has repeatedly expressed frustration with negotiators’ failure to reach an agreement. “They want to make a deal, but we haven’t heard those secret words, ‘We will never have a nuclear weapon,’” Trump said in his speech. He must not be listening, because the Iranians have been saying all along that they have no intention of acquiring nuclear weapons. Trump also claimed that 32,000 people died during the January protests, allegedly killed by Iran’s security forces.
“Professional liars are good at creating the ‘illusion of truth,’” Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei wrote on X in response to Trump’s lies. “‘Repeat a lie often enough and it becomes the truth,’ is a law of propaganda coined by Nazi Joseph Goebbels. This is now systematically used by the U.S. administration and the war profiteers encircling it, particularly the genocidal Israeli regime, to serve their sinister disinformation & misinformation campaign against the Nation of Iran. Whatever they’re alleging in regards to Iran’s nuclear program, Iran’s ballistic missiles, and the number of casualties during January’s unrest is simply the repetition of ‘big lies'.”
