The Times of Israel reports: “Iran pushed back Wednesday against US President Donald Trump’s pressure tactics ahead of critical talks in Geneva over Tehran’s nuclear program, comparing the US and Israel to Nazi propagandist Joseph Goebbels.

The remarks by two Iranian officials ahead of Thursday’s talks come with America having assembled its biggest deployment of aircraft and warships to the Middle East in decades, amid Trump’s efforts to get a deal and Tehran’s struggles at home with growing dissent following nationwide protests last month.

Iran’s foreign ministry dismissed US claims as ‘big lies,’ after Trump said during his State of the Union address that Tehran was developing missiles that can strike the US.

‘Whatever they’re alleging in regards to Iran’s nuclear program, Iran’s ballistic missiles, and the number of casualties during January’s unrest, is simply the repetition of ‘big lies,’‘ ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei said on X.

‘‘Repeat a lie often enough and it becomes the truth,’ is a law of propaganda coined by Nazi Joseph Goebbels. This is now systematically used by the US administration and the war profiteers encircling it, particularly the genocidal Israeli regime, to serve their sinister disinformation and misinformation campaign against the Nation of Iran,’ he wrote…”