Iranian President Pens Open Letter to American People
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has penned an open letter to the American public, in which he appealed to them to “look beyond” what he characterized as “the machinery of misinformation” amid the U.S.-Israeli war with his country.
“Portraying Iran as a threat is neither consistent with historical reality nor with present-day observable facts,” he wrote. “Such a perception is the product of political and economic whims of the powerful—the need to manufacture an enemy in order to justify pressure, maintain military dominance, sustain the arms industry, and control strategic markets. In such an environment, if a threat does not exist, it is invented.”
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He went on to say that the U.S. has deployed a significant portion of its military forces in the area surrounding Iran, adding that “recent American aggressions launched from these very bases have demonstrated how threatening such a military presence truly is.”
“Naturally, no country confronted with such conditions would forgo strengthening its defensive capabilities,” Pezeshkian said. “What Iran has done—and continued to do—is a measured response grounded in legitimate self-defense, and by no means an initiation of war or aggression.”
Pezeshkian questioned whether the war was truly in the interest of the American people, and accused the U.S. of entering the war “as a proxy for Israel.” He alleged that Israel, “by manufacturing an Iranian threat, seeks to divert global attention away from its crimes toward the Palestinians.”
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https://time.com/article/2026/04/01/iran-war-president-open-letter-american-people/