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.
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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