Iran sends warning to US, saying pressure strategy has failed

Iran’s foreign minister has delivered a stark message to the United States, saying Washington’s policies towards Tehran have failed and urging a shift away from pressure and towards what he described as mutual respect.

In a letter published in The Wall Street Journal, Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi addressed US President Donald Trump directly, arguing that all hostile measures taken against Iran have been ineffective, Caliber.Az reports.

According to a statement released by Iran’s Foreign Ministry, Araghchi said the country was still mourning those killed and rebuilding sites damaged in what he described as “terrorist” attacks. Against this backdrop, he warned that diplomacy itself was now at risk of collapse.

He cautioned that a full-scale military confrontation would be devastating, highly brutal and far longer than what he described as the “wishful timelines” that Israel and its allies were, in his words, seeking to impose on the White House.

Araghchi said the United States had already used its full range of pressure tactics, including economic sanctions, cyber operations and direct military action. He also claimed that Washington’s alleged backing of what he called a “large-scale terrorist operation” had failed to produce the desired outcome.

“The message from Iran to President Trump is clear: all your options have failed,” Araghchi wrote. “It is time to think differently — try respect.”

By Aghakazim Guliyev