Iranian foreign minister smiles when asked about 900 executed Iranians

Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi smiled in response to a question asked by a reporter on Friday regarding his regime’s execution, torture, and imprisonment of Iranian citizens.

Fox News Digital reporter Efrat Lachter posted footage of the interaction to her X/Twitter account, showing Araghchi smiling and ultimately dismissing her question.

In the post, she wrote: “Tried to ask Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi how he can call himself ‘a victim of terrorism’ while his government has executed more than 900 Iranians this year, and while thousands of others have been tortured and imprisoned?”

“What, exactly, did he find amusing?” Lachter asked in her post.

“The US president described us as terrorists,” he said. “We have been the victims of terrorism.”

Araghchi further denounced other countries for not condemning alleged “atrocities” committed in Iran by the United States and Israel.

“In the face of the atrocities that occurred – where 168 innocent children were deliberately massacred in a single instant – these countries do not even issue a simple condemnation,” he said.

Seth J. Frantzman and Tzvi Jasper contributed to this report.