Iranian Foreign Minister: Netanyahu Is Dragging the United States Into a New War to Avoid Prison

Al-Taj News – Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said that previous U.S. attempts to end the war had made Iran stronger.

Araghchi added that Netanyahu is dragging the United States into a new war to avoid prison, without regard for the consequences for Israel and the U.S. president.

Earlier, U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth said that Iran faces a choice between abandoning its “nuclear ambitions” and reaching an agreement, or facing devastating military action that the United States could carry out swiftly if necessary.

Speaking to students in Reserve Officers’ Training Corps programs and military recruits at the University of Tennessee, Hegseth added that Tehran would soon have to choose between abandoning those ambitions through negotiations or facing “the destruction that the United States can inflict, and will inflict swiftly if necessary.”

Hegseth accused Iran of building a large arsenal of conventional missiles to deter any military action against it, while pursuing its nuclear ambitions, arguing that U.S. military power is necessary to push adversaries toward negotiations.