Iran has said that remarks by President Donald Trump likening US naval operations to “pirates” amount to a “damning” admission of Washington’s actions at sea.
Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baqaei said on Saturday that the US president openly described what Tehran considers unlawful seizures of Iranian vessels.
“The President of the United States has openly described the unlawful seizure of Iranian vessels as ‘piracy,’ brazenly boasting that ‘we act like pirates,'” Baqaei wrote on X.
“This was no verbal slip. It was a direct and damning admission of the criminal nature of their actions against international maritime navigation.”
Baqaei urged the world to firmly reject what he described as attempts to normalise the conduct.
“The international community, UN Member States, and the UN Secretary-General must firmly reject any normalisation of such blatant violations of international law,” he said.
