The secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, Mohammad Bagher Zolghadr, responded to U.S. President Donald Trump's remarks on negotiations. He said: "To the U.S. president who threatened 91 million Iranians, I say – you, leader of a nation without roots, you spoke in the past in similar terms about destroying Iran's millennia-old civilization. The result for you was defeat, despair and pleas for negotiations and a ceasefire. Iranians do not respond to the language of threats. Speak to the Iranian people with respect, or we will respond to you in another language."

