Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Ismail Bagaei responded on social media that "any allegations about the Iranian nuclear program, its missiles The diplomat likened the accusations coming from Washington and Israel to the propaganda strategy attributed to Joseph Goebbels, noting that repeating a falsehood many times does not make it true. He also accused the US government and the “Israeli regime” of waging a disinformation campaign against his country.

During the speech, Trump asserted that Iran “continues to pursue its sinister ambitions” to develop a nuclear weapon and warned that his administration “will never allow it.”

The president recalled Operation Midnight Hammer, carried out on June 22, 2015, when US forces attacked Iranian nuclear facilities in Fordow, Natanz, and Isfahan, as a demonstration that Washington is prepared to take military action to curb the Iranian nuclear program.

Furthermore, the US president warned that if an agreement is not reached, “it will be a bad day for the country and very sadly for its people.”

Iran has maintained for decades that its nuclear program has exclusively peaceful purposes, such as energy generation and scientific development.

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi reiterated that his country “does not "Under no circumstances will Iran develop nuclear weapons," and defended Iran's right to benefit from nuclear technology for civilian purposes. Araqchi confirmed that he will attend a round of negotiations in Geneva with US representatives with the intention of reaching "a fair and equitable agreement as quickly as possible." However,While negotiations unfold amid heightened regional tensions, the United States has deployed a large military force to the area, including two aircraft carriers, destroyers, and dozens of fighter jets—the largest deployment since the 2003 invasion of Iraq, according to US officials. Tehran, for its part, has warned that it will respond firmly to any attack and that a conflict could spread throughout the Middle East. Asian media outlets even claim that China's Ministry of State Security (MSS) provided Iran with new technology to prevent US and Israeli intelligence infiltration and to help the Islamic Republic defend itself against warplanes in the event of a renewed conflict.