Thursday, April 02, 2026

Iranian president: Is Iran war really ‘America First?’

Iran's president has written an open letter to America asking whether the Trump administration's war with his country is putting "America First." "Exactly which of the American people's interests are truly being served by this war?," Masoud Pezeshkian wrote in the letter, addressed "to the people of the United States of America" and posted on X late Wednesday local time, hours before US President Donald Trump gave his first national address on the Iran war. "Is America First' truly among the priorities of the US government today?" Pezeshkian asked.

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He claimed that Iran has "never, in its modern history, chosen the path of aggression, expansion, colonialism, or domination, and never initiated any war" and that the perception of his country being a threat is "the product of political and economic whims of the powerful." He asserted Tehran's actions " which have included daily drone and missile strikes that have hit civilian and military infrastructure across the Gulf " have been "legitimate self-defense."

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No.

It's Donald first.

It always has been Donald first.

Since the day he crawled out of his mom's snatch.

Moscow, Israel, Saudi Arabia have him by his tiny nads and he will do anything they want.

#1 | Posted by Nixon at 2026-04-02 07:10 AM

"Exactly which of the American people's interests are truly being served by this war"

Mine.
This is what I voted for.
--Boaz

#2 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-04-02 12:45 PM

How sad is that when American "patriots" know less about what America First means than the President of Iran?

#3 | Posted by jpw at 2026-04-02 01:40 PM

If you want to know who's really in charge, look at who it's unsafe to criticize.
And, yes, I understand the neo-Nazi origin of that trope.
But, occasionally, even a blind pig finds a truffle.

#4 | Posted by morris at 2026-04-02 04:48 PM

Voltaire was not a Neo Nazi.

That's the origin of the Quote.

#5 | Posted by Effeteposer at 2026-04-02 07:18 PM

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