Qalibaf Reacts to Fake News about Iran-US Talks
Iranian Parliament Speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf mocked the Americans’ spread of fake news about the negotiations between Tehran and Washington on an end to the aggression against Iran.
Reacting to reports about a supposed impending arrangement between the two sides, he described them as misleading and part of recurring fake media narratives originating in the United States and part of the Americans’ psychological operations after their heavy defeat in the military operation in the Strait of Hormuz.
“Operation Trust Me Bro failed. Now back to routine with Operation Fauxios,” he wrote in a post on X on Thursday,
He was pointing to allegations published by the US-based outlet Axios regarding such an arrangement.
Axios, which is the main source of publishing fake news from the White House, was nicknamed Fauxiox by Qalibaf, referring to the English word Faux, meaning false or fake.
On February 28, the United States and the Israeli regime launched an unprovoked war of aggression against Iran, during which then Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei and several senior military officials were martyred.
Iranian Armed Forces responded with weeks of missile and drone strikes targeting American and Israeli military positions in the occupied territories and the Persian Gulf region, inflicting heavy damages in 100 waves of counterattacks over a period of 40 days.
Iran’s retaliation also featured the country’s closing the strategic Strait of Hormuz to vessels belonging to enemies and their allies.
The Islamic Republic then subjected the waterway to further restrictions, conditioning passage of vessels to their securing permission from relevant Iranian authorities. The latter move came after the US announced continuation of an illegal blockade it has been trying to impose on Iranian vessels and ports.
Iran has ruled out returning to the negotiation table unless the blockade was lifted. On Wednesday and amid the Islamic Republic’s continued resilience, US President Donald Trump said he was “pausing” his so-called “Project Freedom”, a much-hyped plan supposedly aimed at forcibly reopening the strait.