*I Must Have Say In Picking Iran’s Next Ruler –Trump
*Not Your Business, We Won’t Let You Have Say -Foreign Minister Araghchi
*Surrender Or Die, Trump Urges IRGC, Military
Iran’s Ambassador to Egypt, Mojtaba Ferdousi Pour, yesterday said Iran is not engaged in any direct or indirect communication with the US to bring an end to the war, adding that US President Donald Trump’s comments that Iran wants to negotiate are untrue, Associated Press (AP) reports.
Pour cited a lack of trust after the US twice attacked Iran amid negotiations of a possible nuclear deal, saying there “will be no trust in Trump.”
Also, Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said the US “bears full responsibility for bloodshed”, in a post on X.
“Long prepared for this war, Iran’s Powerful Armed Forces are ensuring that it becomes a quagmire for whomever chooses to pursue it,” he posted.
Trump Says He Rejected Attempt By Tehran To Restart Negotiations Tuesday
“Their air defense, Air Force, Navy and Leadership is gone. They want to talk. I said ‘Too Late!’,” the US President wrote on his Truth Social platform, saying the US was prepared “to go far longer” than a four- to five-week war against Iran.
I Must Have Say In Picking Iran’s Next Ruler, Says Trump
“The United States will ensure that whoever leads the country next, Iran will not threaten America or its neighbors, Israel, anybody.
“If you look at what happened, they had missiles aimed at all of these other countries, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, UAE, many others that weren’t really involved very much,” Trump said, without mentioning that all of those nations host US military bases or troops.
“And they had missiles aimed, well, they were aimed there long before this ever started,” the President said. “They were going after the entire Middle East. And then we came along. We blew up their party.”
… Woos Iran’s Military, Police, Diplomats To Surrender, Rallies Citizens To Revolt
In his comments at the White House earlier, Donald Trump also renewed his call for Iran’s military to surrender and the Iranian people to rise up and overthrow the theocratic government that has ruled the country since the 1979 Revolution that deposed Shah Reza Pahlavi.
“I’m once again calling on all members of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, the military, and the police, to lay down their arms.
“Now is the time to stand up for the Iranian people and help take back your country. You’re going to have a chance, after all these years, to take back your country. Accept immunity.
“We’ll give you immunity,” the President said.
“And we’ll be giving you- really the right side of history, because that’s what it is. So, you’ll be perfectly safe with total immunity or you’ll face absolutely guaranteed death. And I don’t want to see that.
“We also urge Iranian diplomats around the world to request asylum and to help us shape a new and better Iran with great potential. It’s a country with great potential. There’s much better future for Iran. It’s now beginning. It’s going to be, I think, a great future.”
Trump Cannot Choose Next Leader For Iran, We’re ‘Ready For US Ground Invasion’ -Foreign Minister
Iran is ready to face American troops, if there is a ground invasion, Araghchi told NBC.
“We are confident that we can confront them, and that would be a big disaster for them.”
Trump has sent mixed signals about whether he is willing to deploy US forces in a “boots on the ground” capacity.
Araghchi said there would be “no winner in this war” and Iran is not asking for a ceasefire.
“The fact is that we don’t have any positive experience of negotiating with the United States. You know, especially with this administration. We negotiated twice last year and this year, and then in the middle of negotiations, they attacked us.”
On the issue of who will be chosen as a successor to the former Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Araghchi said that would be up to the Assembly of Experts – an 88-seat Iranian governmental body – to decide, and not Trump, who has said he must “be involved.”
The Minister added: “That is absolutely the business of Iranian people, and nobody can interfere.”
*PHOTO CAPTION: Trump.
