Tehran fired back immediately at Donald Trump‘s “delusions,” with Iran‘s Ministry of Foreign Affairs warning that if the US president does not correct his stance on the Strait of Hormuz on his own, “we will correct it for him.” Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister, Kazem Gharibabadi, commented via a post on platform X, responding to Donald Trump’s statement earlier today.
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Trump branded “deranged”
Specifically, the Iranian diplomat responded to Donald Trump’s publication of a map of the Strait of Hormuz, in which the strategically vital waterway was labeled “NEW U.S. Territory.” In the same image, however, the American president used the name “Persian Gulf” for the body of water, a detail that Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister seized upon — noting that while Trump correctly used the name “Persian Gulf,” his understanding of the Strait of Hormuz was severely distorted. “While Trump correctly wrote the name of the eternal Persian Gulf, his delusion regarding the Strait of Hormuz will soon either be corrected, or we will correct the delusions of this deranged man ourselves,” the Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister stated pointedly, going so far as to describe the US president as a “deranged man.”
همانطور که ترامپ نام خلیج همیشگی فارس را به صورت صحیح نوشت، به زودی توهمش درخصوص تنگه هرمز یا اصلاح می شود یا توهمات این متوهم را اصلاح خواهیم کرد. pic.twitter.com/gpxqnGK077
— Gharibabadi (@Gharibabadi) August 18, 2026
“Those with the world’s biggest military are now begging for negotiations”
At the same time, Iran’s Foreign Minister, Abbas Araghchi, declared that Tehran had prevailed over the United States on both an operational and diplomatic level. According to him, Iran resisted military pressure until conditions were right for the US to “come to the table” for negotiations and agree to a ceasefire.
The Iranian Foreign Minister also stressed that those who initially demanded Tehran’s “unconditional surrender” ultimately ended up “begging for negotiations.” “We were the ones who refused a ceasefire and continued the war until we reached a point where [the US] agreed to a ceasefire and negotiations on Iran’s terms,” Araghchi stated, adding: “We fought with strength and negotiated with strength, and we won the war, and we won the diplomacy.” “The Iranian people stood against what was supposedly the world’s largest military, backed and supported by most Western countries and several other nations in the region and beyond,” the senior Iranian diplomat declared, concluding his remarks by saying that “those who tried to impose unconditional surrender on Iran were asking for negotiations shortly after the war began.”
Meanwhile, the Deputy Commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Brigadier General Mostafa Izadi, stated that the Strait of Hormuz remains under Iranian forces’ control, while also asserting that Tehran’s adversaries have reached a dead end. “The enemy does not know what to do and finds itself in a state of impotence,” he declared.
