'I asked Witkoff, have you ever been in a meeting where there was a chance of being BOMBED at any moment?'
Araghchi adds Iran wasn’t scared by US threats:
'This isn’t Venezuela where you take 1 person and everyone else gets scared and backs down'
As punishment for my factual journalism, I was subjected to political harassment by the Trump administration upon my return from Iran.
This Israeli-influenced criminal cartel is clearly threatened by my reporting from Tehran, where I showed the massive crowds of mourners and ferocious public backlash to the assassination of [Ayatollah Ali] Khamenei, exposed US and Israeli war crimes against civilians from the ground, and conducted candid interviews with officials, negotiators and influential Iranians.
The seizure of my devices was a clear act of intimidation aimed at deterring me and others from doing further critical reporting from Iran, which is likely why my interrogators from CPB demanded to know if I would be returning to Tehran to report any time soon.
To the best of my knowledge I have never met a member of the IRGC. Neither expressed “a positive opinion” about them. An English woman named Shabana Mahmood has just made it punishable by 14 years in prison so to do so as a free-born Scotsman I will have to reconsider that. So far as I’m aware - as a UK legislator across five decades - this is the first time I have been explicitly told that I can go to prison literally for my opinion. For those of you cheering, remember, it will be your opinion next.
I've just visited the largest funeral in history, where millions mourned Sayyed Ali Khamenei, the Iranian leader who was assassinated by the US-Israeli coalition along with members of his family
It is practically impossible to understand what this scene is like, or what it means, unless you're here. I've met people from around the world who've come to pay respects, including many from across the West. The crowds pouring in are endless, and grow larger and more intense into the night.
From Tehran's Mosala, there are indignant calls for vengeance, displays of sorrow and defiance, protest, songs and marathons of poetry. These days of mourning will amount to one of the most resonant moments in the history of anti-imperialist movements.
Everyone I've spoken to believes war will return to Iran before long, and none trust the MOU with the US. But they are confident their country can deter another assault. They see their own citizens' mobilization as an integral component of Iran's survival.
If the assassination of Khamenei was designed to spur regime change, his funeral demonstrates how badly it has backfired. And the crime may blow back in ways its historically illiterate authors could have never imagined.
What we're witnessing in the Mosala consolidates the Islamic Republic and its revolutionary society as a political reality that can not be erased through regime change war or sanctions. This is a turning point in the region that will echo for a generation.
There was a bigger crowd outside the Emirates last night than for Tommy ‘Bottle-Job’ Robinson’s march on Saturday. Arsenal has United the Kingdom in a way he never will.
After an initial round in Pakistan, Iran came out of the post-war negotiations with three conclusions:
1. Washington does not view the war's outcomes realistically, nor does it build upon them in negotiations with Iran.
2. Washington emptied the negotiations of their substance after imposing the blockade, and tried to change the terms of negotiation by doing so.
3. U.S. policy uses the blockade as a cover to prepare militarily and to surprise Iran for a third time.
However, Iran will not be taken by surprise militarily, nor will it negotiate except on the basis of the war's outcomes.
In a heated Al Jazeera Arabic panel, Iranian academic Hassan Ahmadian pushed back sharply when an American guest cited 40,000 deaths during the January riots and protests in Iran.
Ahmadian said the ever-increasing figure serves only to “whitewash Israel’s image” in the region after it killed over 80,000 in Gaza — pointing to Iran’s official toll of 3,117 killed, and noting that it included hundreds of police and security personnel killed by actors Iran’s government has said were armed and supported by US and Israel.
The new Supreme Leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, in a statement marking the holiday of Nowruz, designated the “January Coup” the second of three wars Iran faced in a year — along with the 12-day war in June 2025, and the attacks that began on February 28. He described it as a U.S. and Israeli-backed attempt to exploit economic hardship and use armed actors to destabilize the Islamic Republic.
Trump himself subsequently confirmed the U.S. had tried to arm Iranian protesters, telling reporters: “We sent guns, a lot of guns, they were supposed to go to the people so they could fight back.”
Every word in this speech by Iranian foreign minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi (after failed talks with US in Pak) is gold.
Must be listened to again and again (read subtitles), shared, and preserved to inspire clarity of thought, confidence and self-respect.
In intensive talks at highest level in 47 years, Iran engaged with U.S in good faith to end war.
But when just inches away from "Islamabad MoU", we encountered maximalism, shifting goalposts, and blockade.
Zero lessons earned
Good will begets good will.
Enmity begets enmity.
The Iranian President tweets that he is willing sacrifice his own life for his people. Donald Trump was willing to sacrifice Charlie Kirk and is willing to sacrifice every American life and livelihood for Greater Israel.
Who is the animal again?
@NawafAlThani That was before your country backed a war of aggression against Iran.
Iran has re-written the rule book.
And to the victor goes the spoils.
If you don’t like it, defeat Iran.
Otherwise shut up and pay the toll.
“If they didn’t spend on weapons…”
😴 It would’ve been so beautiful... Then we could’ve gone in, seized all their oil fields in 48 hours -48 hours, believe me- armed the Israelis with the best weapons, and created many, many new Gazas. The real “American Dream,” folks.
NEVER!
Trump has finally achieved his dream of 'regime change'—but in the region's maritime regime!
The Strait of Hormuz will certainly reopen, but not for you; it will be open for those who comply with the new laws of Iran.
The 47 years of hospitality are over forever.
در نشست سخنگویی امروز مطرح شد:
ما در این سی و یک روز هیچ مذاکرهای با آمریکا نداشتهایم. آنچه که بوده، ارائه درخواست مذاکره همراه با مجموعهای از پیشنهادها از طرف #آمریکا بوده که توسط برخی واسطهها از جمله پاکستان به دست ما رسیده است.
موضع ما خیلی روشن است. ما الان در شرایطی که تعرض و تجاوز نظامی آمریکا با شدت ادامه دارد، همه تلاش و توانمان مصروف دفاع از کیان ایران است.. ما تجارب قبلی را با گوشت و پوست و استخوان خود لمس کردهایم، و خیانتی که در دو نوبت در عرض کمتر از یک سال به دیپلماسی شد را فراموش نمیکنیم.
Iran respects the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and considers it a brotherly nation.
Our operations are aimed at enemy aggressors who have no respect for Arabs or Iranians, nor can provide any security. Just look at what we did to their aerial command.
High time to eject U.S. forces.
I don't think people understand the gravity of the situation as the UN is preparing for possible nuclear weapon use in Iran.
This is a picture of Tehran. For you uneducated, untraveled, never-served, warhawks licking your chops at the thought of bombing it. It's not some low population desert. There are families, children, family pets. Regular working class people with dreams. You're sick to want war.
Tehran is a city of nearly 10,000,000 people. Imagine nuking Washington, Berlin, Paris, London, or beyond, bombed with nuclear weapons.
I gave up my diplomatic career to leak this information. I suspended my duties so as not to be part of or a witness to this crime against humanity, in an attempt to prevent a nuclear winter before it is too late.
Yesterday, nearly ten million people protested “No Kings” in the United States. The possibility of the use of nuclear weapons must be taken very seriously. It's dangerous. Act now. Spread this message worldwide. Take the streets. Protest for our humanity and future. Only the people can stop it. History will remember us.