Iran Compares Trump Admin to Nazis After SOTU Threat

The spokesman for the Iranian foreign ministry compared the U.S. administration to the top Nazi propagandist after President Donald Trump again warned Tehran against pursuing a nuclear weapon in his State of the Union address to Congress.

Trump has ordered a massive military build-up in the Middle East and threatened to strike Iran if it does not make a new nuclear deal with the U.S. Tehran denies seeking to build a nuclear bomb.

“Professional liars are good at creating the ‘illusion of truth’,” Esmaeil Baqaei, spokesman for the Iranian foreign ministry, said in a post on X after Trump’s address.

“”Repeat a lie often enough and it becomes the truth’, is a law of propaganda coined by Nazi Joseph Goebbels. This is now systematically used by the U.S. administration and the war profiteers encircling it, particularly the genocidal Israeli regime, to serve their sinister disinformation & misinformation campaign against the Nation of Iran.

“Whatever they’re alleging in regards to Iran’s nuclear program, Iran’s ballistic missiles, and the number of casualties during January’s unrest is simply the repetition of ‘big lies’. No one should be fooled by these prominent untruths.”

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