Tehran, Iran - Iran's political and military leaders stimulated his remarks during the U.S. president's first major tour of the Middle East, pointing his finger back at Donald Trump.
In a speech to a group of teachers holding state ceremonies in Tehran, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said some of Trump’s remarks were not even worthy of response.
"The level of these remarks is so low that they are a shame to the person who speaks them and a shame to the U.S. nation," he said.
Khamenei added that Trump said Trump “lied” when he wanted to use the power of peace because Washington supported others in Palestine and elsewhere. He called Israel a "dangerous cancerous tumor" and had to be "uprooted".
Meanwhile, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian also told a group of naval officers on Saturday that Trump threatened the peace while supporting Israel’s “genocide” in the Gaza Strip.
"Should we believe the president's words? His message of peace, or his message of the human holocaust?" The Iranian president said, pointing out that Trump approved the International Criminal Court (ICC) with an international criticism.
The statements were in praise of the Arab leaders in neighboring Iran and blasting Tehran’s leadership after Trump used his Middle East Tour (during this period) to sign huge deals with Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates.
The U.S. president told Arab leaders that they were developing infrastructure while Iran’s “landmarks collapsed with rubble”, and its theocratic enterprises replaced the monarchy in a 1979 revolution.
He said Iranian leaders “managed to turn green spaces into arid desert” due to corruption and mismanagement, noting that the power outages occur for several hours a day in Iranians.
According to Iranian authorities, the power outage is the result of a year-long energy crisis that has damaged Iran's already tense economy and is expected to continue the rest of the year.
On Saturday, the largest association of Iran's mining, steel and cement industries wrote a joint letter to Pezshkian, desperately asking him to review the 90% electricity usage restrictions imposed on key sectors.
Trump praised Syria's interim President Ahmed al-Sharaa and lifted sanctions on Damascus, and he also targeted Iran's regional policies.
He described Tehran’s support for the fall of President Bashar Assad, which is the cause of “pain and death” and regional instability.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi described the U.S. president's remarks as "deceptive" and told state media on Friday that it was the United States that hindered Iran through sanctions and military threats while supporting Israel and attacking Syria.
Speaking at the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) meeting in Indonesia, Parliament Director Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf said Trump's remarks showed he was "living in delusions."
Hossein Salami, commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards (IRGC), addressed Trump directly on Friday and said that even if Iran has beautiful landmarks: “We are proud of the elevation of character, identity, culture and Islam.”
The sharp remarks on Trump's latest controversial comments come days after he laughed at him as he might soon call the "Persian Gulf" the "Arab Gulf."
This angered Iranians and prompted criticism of any attempt to rename any pro-Trump Iranians from ordinary citizens, authorities, local media, local media, and even some pro-Trump Iranians who have been advocating for U.S. sanctions and regime change.
Both Iran and the United States say they hope a deal that will quickly remove tensions about Iran's nuclear program despite the latest language wars.
But after four rounds of negotiations mediated by Oman, any potential agreement (which would lift sanctions in exchange for ensuring Iran does not have nuclear bombs) still seems to face significant obstacles.
Trump said Tehran had made a proposal to quickly reach a deal, but Iran's Araghchi said Friday that there was no written proposal amid Washington's "chaotic and contradictory" remarks.
He wrote on X: "Tag my words: Iran has no scenario to give up its right to hard rewards for peaceful purposes: also provides the rights of all other NPT signers."
Senior nuclear negotiator Kazem Gharibabadi rejected reports from Western media on Friday that Iran may agree to completely stop its abundance of uranium for the rest of Trump's presidency.
"The right to abundance is our absolute red line! It is acceptable to not stop abundance."
Trump unilaterally withdrew from the landmark nuclear agreement signed between Iran and the world's major powers in 2018 three years ago, imposing the toughest U.S. sanctions to date, which have only been intensified in the latest negotiations.
The nuclear deal sets an enrichment rate of 3.67% in Iran's civilian use with first-generation centrifuges in exchange for UN sanctions. Iran now has up to 60% capacity and has enough fission material to use for multiple bombs, but has not yet worked hard to build one.