[44984] Tehran fires back at the White House: "Iran is a nation with a 6,000-year history"

Tehran fires back at the White House: "Iran is a nation with a 6,000-year history"

In response to American demands that were interpreted in Tehran as a call for "total surrender," the Deputy Head of Communications and Information at the Office of the President of Iran, Ali Reza Tabatabaei, delivered a sharp message to the White House. In a post he published on social media, the senior official wondered: "Is there no one in the great White House who knows history, and who can remind them that the people they are inviting to surrender are the heirs of a 6,000-year-old civilization, famous throughout history for its steadfastness?"

The message, which was published simultaneously by several Iranian Telegram channels associated with the administration, such as خبرفوری ࡆ اخبارفوری مذاکره ࡆ جنگ فوری and حامیان پزشکیان, included an implicit warning to parties in the West. The Iranian official compared the current situation to the distant past, claiming that "the last one who spoke to the Iranian people in such a way... bore fateful and educational consequences."

The official news agency IRNA, known as the official media arm of the regime in Tehran, echoed the remarks while emphasizing the narrative of steadfastness in the face of external pressure. The reports do not specify the particular event at the White House that triggered the response, but they reflect the tense tone in the relationship between the countries.

The remarks appeared in extensive coverage on channels identified with supporters of the Iranian government, including خبرفوری جنگ🚨اخبارفوری امریکا فوری, which emphasize the rejection of American pressure as a central component of the current internal discourse in Iran.