Iran Accuses U.S., Israel of Nazi Propaganda After Trump Says He’ll Never Allow Nuclear Weapon

U.S. President Donald Trump used his State of the Union address Tuesday night to accuse Iran of rebuilding its nuclear program and warned he would “never allow” Tehran to obtain a nuclear weapon. Within hours, Iran’s Foreign Ministry responded with a sharp counterattack, accusing Washington and Israel of spreading “big lies” and invoking Nazi propaganda.

Framing the confrontation as a choice between diplomacy and force, Trump told Congress, “As president, I will make peace wherever I can, but I will never hesitate to confront threats to America wherever we must.”

He then turned directly to Iran’s leadership. “Since they seized control of that proud country 47 years ago, the regime and its proxies have done nothing but spread terrorism and death and hate,” Trump said.

Addressing unrest inside Iran, he alleged: “In recent months with the protests they killed what looks like 32,000 protesters in their own country. They shot them and hanged them, we stopped them because we threatened them. They are terrible people. They developed missiles that endanger our bases and they are working to develop missiles that reach America.”

Trump added that Iran is working to build missiles that can reach the United States and has already achieved the ability to “threaten Europe and our bases overseas.”

Turning to Iran’s nuclear infrastructure, Trump referenced last year’s strikes on the Fordow, Natanz and Isfahan facilities under Operation “Midnight Hammer.” “We wiped it out but they want to start all over again and at this moment are pursuing their sinister ambitions,” he said.

“After Operation ‘Midnight Hammer’ they were supposed to stop developing nuclear weapons but they continue, right now. We are negotiating, and we want to reach a deal but we haven’t heard the secret words: ‘We will never have a nuclear weapon.’”

He then delivered a firm red line: “I will never allow the world’s number one sponsor of terror to have a nuclear weapon.”

On Wednesday, Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei responded in a series of posts on X in English, Farsi and Arabic.

“Professional liars are good at creating the ‘illusion of truth,’” Baghaei wrote.

“‘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.”

He added that “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,’” and said “no one should be fooled by these prominent untruths.”

The exchange came hours after U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio briefed the congressional “Gang of Eight” on Iran, as negotiations are expected to continue in Geneva tomorrow.