Iran's Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf has mocked Donald Trump after the US president claimed Tehran 'needs food' and would soon be buying American crops. Ghalibaf's reply, posted on his own X account, pointed to the millions of Americans who rely on food stamps.
The exchange has reignited tension between Washington and Tehran, just weeks after the two countries signed a memorandum aimed at ending their brief war earlier this year. It is also the second time in under two weeks that Ghalibaf has mocked Trump over the same claim: on 25 June, he dismissed an earlier version of the food-exports proposal by saying 'the only crop we're harvesting is what you planted: decades of mistrust.'
