Iran surrendered to President Trump false claim

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"I personally apologise to neighbouring countries that were affected by Iran's actions," Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said, urging them not to join U.S.-Israeli attacks on Iran. He dismissed Trump's demand for the Islamic Republic's unconditional surrender as "a dream", but said its temporary leadership council had ​agreed to suspend attacks on nearby states unless strikes on Iran originated from their territory.

Throughout the first weeks of the war, President Trump, Secretary of Defense Hegseth, and Secretary of State Rubio repeatedly claimed they went to war to destroy Iran’s missile capabilities, eliminate its Navy, block its path to a nuclear weapon, end the regime’s support for terrorist proxies, and empower the Iranian people to free themselves. None of these goals are yet realized. “We all want to bring this conflict to a swift conclusion. However, it is beyond outrageous that President Trump has signed a secret agreement with Iran, going into immediate effect, before presenting it to Congress for review, as required by law.

٢٧ شباط/فبراير ٢٠٢٦ ... نية وضمير حي، لكنهم لم يصلوا إلى ذلك. حتى الآن، لم يصلوا إلى ذلك.” الرئيس الأمريكي ......

The U.S. president spoke to the United Nations General Assembly in New York City, making misleading statements about Iran and AI.

And the memorandum, signed on Wednesday evening by Iran’s president and Mr. Trump, describes a pathway in which Iran could begin receiving billions of dollars in assets that have been frozen for years. Mr. Trump insists the money will only be released in return for “good behavior.” But it is essentially the same concession that Barack Obama made 11 years ago, and that Mr. Trump has savaged ever since. As Mr. Trump reminds reporters — often angrily — the United States did have many accomplishments on the battlefield: It sank Iran’s less-than-impressive navy, wiped out its small air force, destroyed much of Iran’s defense industrial base and demolished some of its missile emplacements and mobile launchers.

Trump claims the U.S.-Iran deal is an "unconditional surrender," says covert Navy operations destroyed 159 Iranian ships over nearly two months.

“But really, probably is unconditional surrender,” Trump said of the deal. “I think so.” · The signing of the 14-point preliminary agreement initiated a 60-day negotiation period for talks about Iran’s nuclear program and control of the Strait of Hormuz, a major shipping channel that has been closed during the conflict.

In March, Trump said he thought the war he launched on the last day of February would be over in “four weeks,” “four to five weeks,” “four to six weeks,” or otherwise under two months. But in a social media post on Thursday, a full seven months after the war began, he claimed that his “four to six weeks” projections had just been about the time it would take to eradicate the nuclear threat from Iran – in other words, not the time it would take to conclude the entire war.

وقال ترامب، عبر حسابه على موقع"تروث": "إما أن يتم تسليم اليورانيوم المخصب (الغبار النووي!) فوراً إلى الولايات المتحدة لينقل إلى هناك ويُدمَّر، أو—وهو الخيار المفضل—أن يُدمَّر في موقعه بالتعاون والتنسيق مع الجمهورية الإسلامية الإيرانية، أو في موقع آخر مقبول، على أن تكون هيئة الطاقة الذرية، أو ما يعادلها، شاهدة على هذه العملية وهذا الحدث."