Iran talks about past wars in response to Trump talks | US-Israel War on Iran News

Tehran, Iran Iran and the United States have awakened the history and position of the MENA region while the world is waiting announcing a potential deal to resolve the conflict between the two countries.

Iranian officials have revived key moments in the country’s history to convey the message of a David versus Goliath battle between the two sides, and the minority won.

This comes as US President Donald Trump announced that they will cooperate with Iran “Great discussion”, Tehran also suggests that there may be an agreement soon. The two sides have been keen to present any agreement to end their 66-day dispute as a victory.

Old messages

Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman, Esmaeil Baghaei, compared it to the Roman expedition against the Persians in the third century, and the invading force was forced to “accept” the latter.

Baghaei also posted a picture of the Roman Emperor Valerian captured by the Persian King Shapur I in the year 260. It is an illustration that has been repeatedly made by Iranian officials in recent months to arouse national interest and promote the idea that the country is bravely fighting another army.

Sunday also marked the anniversary of the latest conflict, when Iran – under a new transitional government that remains in place today – fought an eight-year war with its neighbour, Iraq, from 1980 to 1988.

Every year, the Islamic Republic celebrates the 1982 recapture of Khorramshahr, a predominantly Arabic-speaking city in Iran’s western province of Khuzestan.

Khorramshahr marked a turning point for the Iranian side in a long war that claimed hundreds of thousands of lives on both sides, and this. war being one of the bloodiest.

It has been used in government news and communications during the recent war with the US and Israel to highlight the country’s long history of resistance and determination to maintain sovereignty over its lands.

Ahmad Vahidi, head of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), used the war to signal Tehran’s continued confrontation with the US and Israel in the region.

“The liberation of Khorramshahr is an eternal example of victory in the future Khorramshahr, and the liberation of Quds sharif (Jerusalem), and the destruction of the evil Zionist regime and the axis of resistance and fighters of the Islamic world,” he said, referring to Israel.

Masoud Pezeshkian, Iran’s independent president, linked the incident to the current conflict.

“The Khorramshahr of Iran today is the Persian Gulf and the Strait of Hormuz,” he wrote on X. “Resistance, self-sacrifice and violence are the basis of this country’s culture.

Preparing for peace

Mohammad Mokhber, an adviser to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein and US President Donald Trump failed to recognize Iran’s power in starting the war.

“The first one was buried in the canals of Khorramshahr, while the second one was affected by the political crisis in the mud created by the Zionist government,” he wrote on X.

Kazem Gharibabadi, a member of Iran’s negotiating team and deputy foreign minister for international affairs, linked the Khorramshahr issue to the United Nations Charter and the country’s demands.

“Any ethnic group that is oppressed and dispossessed has the right to legal protection to protect their territory, their rights and their integrity,” he said.

Gharibabadi added that Tehran is currently pursuing the same philosophy of “seeking peace combined with strength, dialogue combined with integrity and guaranteed security”.

Vice President Mohammad Reza Aref said the recapture of the city in 1982 showed that the new government could defeat violence on its own.

Tehran now wants to “defeat our cruel enemy” by doing its job, he wrote on X.

The latest messages from leaders in Tehran come after Trump appears to be seeking to dominate Iran.

On his Truth Social account on Saturday, the US President posted a picture of the US flag on a map of Iran, with the question: “United States of the Middle East?”

In response, the X news of several Iranian ambassadors abroad drew a map of the US covered with the flag of the Islamic Republic, and the question: “United States of Iran?”

The Trump administration has confirmed that it wants a long-term freeze on Iran’s uranium enrichment and the removal of the country’s nuclear weapons.

It also wants the Strait of Hormuz – through which a fifth of the world’s oil passes, but which Iran has closed – to be reopened without paying anything from Iran, officials said.

Israeli officials have not talked about a US-Tehran deal, but say they are pushing for a resumption of war.