Iran Military Spokesman Deploys Trump's Signature Catchphrase Against Him

President Donald Trump had his famous catchphrase flipped back at him by an Iranian military official who rejected claims the nation was in talks to end the war started by the US and Israel.

As Trump continues to insist the Iranian government is clamouring to negotiate for peace, a representative for the nation’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Khatam Al-Anbiya Central Headquarters denied Trump’s account in a video statement.

In a recording translated by Al Jazeera, Brigadier General Ebrahim Zolfaghar addressed “the enemy forces ... who prefer fleeing over standing their ground.”

“Those same masters of consecutive defeats who use the Muslim people of the region as their human shields and see fear in every one of their cells until the time of our strikes arrives so that they may be relieved of their fear even before the impact,” he added, calling their defeat retribution for those who cast “malicious intent on the security of our people.”

Switching to English to zing the US president with the signature line from his reality TV show, “The Apprentice,” Zolfaghar said, “Hey Trump, you’re fired. You’re familiar with this sentence.”

“Thank you for your attention to this matter!” he added, deploying the commander-in-chief’s favourite sign-off on Truth Social posts.

Trump described the situation very differently before boarding Air Force One on Monday. He insisted that talks between top Iranian officials and US diplomats were underway.

Dismissing the Iranian government’s claim that no such negotiations were taking place, Trump told reporters, “Well, they’ll have to get themselves better public relations people.”

“We have had very, very strong talks. We’ll see where they lead,” Trump went on. “We have major points of agreement, I would say almost all points of agreement.”