Iranian president slams Trump’s “stone age” threat as war crime

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has questioned whether remarks by US President Donald Trump threatening to “return the country to the stone age” could constitute a “large-scale war crime.”

Pezeshkian made the comments in a post on the social media platform X, Caliber.Az reports.

Does threatening to send an entire nation back to the Stone Age mean anything other than a massive war crime? This was the question I asked my Finnish counterpart, who is a jurist. History is full of those who paid a heavy price for their silence in the face of criminals.

— Masoud Pezeshkian (@drpezeshkian) April 3, 2026

“Does threatening to send an entire nation back to the Stone Age mean anything other than a massive war crime? This was the question I asked my Finnish counterpart, who is a jurist. History is full of those who paid a heavy price for their silence in the face of criminals,” he wrote.

By Vafa Guliyeva