Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has sharply criticized U.S. President Donald Trump’s recent order for the Pentagon to resume nuclear weapons testing , describing the move as both “regressive” and “irresponsible,” while also calling the U.S. leader a “nuclear-armed bully.”

Araghchi’s condemnation, written on X on Friday, came in response to Trump’s announcement a day earlier calling for a return to nuclear tests “on an equal basis” with Russia, China and other nations he said were conducting similar activities. The decision marks a dramatic escalation in the administration’s nuclear policy and risks deepening global tensions already strained by renewed hostilities between Washington and Tehran.

Newsweek has contacted the State Department and Iran’s Foreign Ministry for commen

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