Israeli lobby behind Trump's anti-Tehran stance? What Iran Foreign Minister said
India Today
Speaking with India Today TV in an exclusive interview, Iran's Foreign Minister said Iran believes American policy — including under President Donald Trump — has been formed by misunderstanding and external influence rather than direct engagement with Iranian society.
The United States has taken a more confrontational stance toward Iran. Has this hostility always existed? What has changed in recent years? Iran’s Foreign Minister, Abbas Araghchi, has offered a blunt explanation for decades of US hostility toward his country — tracing it back to the 1979 Islamic Revolution and what he described as a persistent cycle of mistrust, sanctions and conflict.
Speaking with India Today TV in an exclusive interview, Iran's Foreign Minister said Iran believes American policy — including under President Donald Trump — has been formed by misunderstanding and external influence rather than direct engagement with Iranian society.
Abbas Araghchi traced the roots of today’s hostility to the 1979 Islamic Revolution, which toppled the US-backed Shah and replaced a Western-aligned monarchy with the Islamic Republic, which fundamentally changed Iran’s relation with Washington and its allies.
"Everything began from the Islamic Revolution in Iran," he said. "I think Americans failed to understand why it happened. So they started, you know, hostility against that."
He said Iran has faced contestant pressure ever since, citing coups, war and sanctions.
"So in the past 47 years, we have been the subject or the victim of their hostility against us," he said. "They tried everything. They tried coups several times. They helped Saddam Hussein to impose an eight-year war against us. Last year, another war. All kinds of sanctions. Maximum pressures. And they failed."
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