Iran’s president Masoud Pezeshkian has written an open letter to America asking whether the Trump administration’s war with his country is putting “America First.”

Axar.az reports that in a letter posted on X, he asked exactly which of the American people’s interests were truly being served by this war:

"This raises a fundamental question: Exactly which of the American people's interests are truly being served by this war? Was there any objective threat from Iran to justify such behavior? Does the massacre of innocent children, the destruction of cancer-treatment pharmaceutical facilities, or boasting about bombing a country "back to the stone ages" serve any purpose other than further damaging the United States' global standing?"

Pezeshkian said that “Iranian people harbour no enmity towards other nations, including the people of America, Europe, or neighboring countries.”

He described Tehran’s actions — including daily drone and missile attacks across the Gulf — as “legitimate self-defense.”

"Within this same framework, the United States has concentrated the largest number of its forces, bases, and military capabilities around Iran-a country that, at least since the founding of the United States, has never initiated a war. 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. What Iran has done and continues to do is a measured response grounded in legitimate self-defense, and by no means an initiation of war or aggression."