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Abbas Araghchi Says Americans Are ‘Sick and Tired’ of Israel’s ‘Forever Wars’
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Araghchi says Americans are sick and tired of Israel dragging the US into forever wars. He posted on X a video of Trump's CBS 60 Minutes interview.
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Araghchi attacks Trump
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi responded to US President Donald Trump’s remarks on CBS News’ 60 Minutes by writing that “Americans are evidently sick and tired of Israel bamboozling US administrations into Forever Wars.”
“Americans are evidently sick and tired of Israel bamboozling US administrations into Forever Wars.”
Araghchi added that “POTUS clearly recognizes that the vast majority of Americans are disgusted with Israel,” while saying Trump appeared “confused about why that’s the case.”
The Iranian foreign minister framed the criticism as part of a broader regional message, writing that “They had enough. So has our region.”
ANI said Araghchi posted the critique on X after Trump attributed Republican midterm election losses to public hostility toward Israel and to war-linked fuel price spikes.
Al-Manar TV Lebanon said Araghchi’s comments addressed domestic fallout in the United States as a joint US-Israeli military escalation against Tehran continued to trigger “severe global economic instability” and “direct military entanglements across the region.”
US signals and sanctions
US President Donald Trump told reporters that fresh military strikes against Iran were “highly unlikely” if negotiations continued to advance, while he stopped short of ruling out further military action.
Trump told CNN that Washington had already delivered a “crushing blow to Tehran,” making additional military action “highly unlikely” to be required.
ANI reported that Trump said it depended on whether Iran would “sign a very strong agreement,” and Trump linked the decision to Iran’s nuclear ambitions and the unblocking of the Strait of Hormuz.
ANI also reported that Trump said American forces had mapped out critical infrastructure targets across Iran, highlighting that power plants and bridges had been identified, and that authorities could destroy 38 bridges in an hour.
The US Treasury Department imposed fresh sanctions targeting eight Canadian firms alleged to have assisted Tehran in laundering funds via cryptocurrency networks, and ANI said Trump told reporters, “We're talking to Iran. We have been,” before leaving the White House.
Diplomacy, Qeshm, and Rubio
An Iranian provincial official told the semi-official Fars news agency that no vital infrastructure or public services were impacted by a US attack on Qeshm Island near the Strait of Hormuz, and the official said the targeted sites were away from residential and commercial areas. An unnamed Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy official told Iranian state media that navigational aid systems in the southern part of the Strait of Hormuz had been destroyed, and the official added that no unauthorised vessels had passed through the maritime route overnight. The conflict’s diplomatic track faced hurdles as US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said negotiations had made little progress and that an agreement was not imminent, while Rubio described Iran’s demands as “unacceptable” and, in some cases, “outrageous and ridiculous”.
The sources said Trump was scheduled to meet Qatari Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman Al-Thani at the White House on Monday, and Vice President JD Vance was also expected to meet the Qatari leader. Rubio said Washington remained open to diplomatic opportunities but maintained that preventing Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons should remain a bipartisan priority, and the sources said the G7 foreign ministers were scheduled to meet in Paris on Monday and Tuesday with the Iran conflict among expected discussion topics.