Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi has leveled scathing accusations against U.S. Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, seizing on reports of an attempted multimillion-dollar defense investment to frame the ongoing conflict as a cynical “war of choice” for profit.
‘America First’ Under Fire
In a provocative social media post late Tuesday, Araghchi used a Financial Times report to attack the ethical foundations of the Donald Trump administration’s foreign policy.
The Foreign Minister suggested that the alleged attempt by Hegseth’s broker to buy into a defense fund while planning military action exposed a deeper, predatory motive behind the hostilities.
“Nothing says ‘America First’ like launching a war for a foreign regime while trying to profit as young soldiers are sent off to die,” Araghchi wrote. He further characterized the five-week-old conflict as a “war of choice” that has been “imposed on both Americans and Iranians.”
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