https://time.com/article/2026/04/01/ira ... an-people/
由 Chantelle Lee 报道
伊朗总统马苏德·佩泽什基安发表了一封致美国公众的公开信，他在信中呼吁美国民众“看穿”他所称的“虚假信息机器”，背景是美以与伊朗之间的战争。
他写道：“将伊朗描绘成威胁，既不符合历史事实，也不符合当今可观察到的现实。这样的认知是强权政治和经济利益的产物——为了施压、维持军事主导地位、支撑军工产业、控制战略市场，而制造一个敌人。在这样的环境中，如果不存在威胁，就会被发明出来。”
佩泽什基安于周三下午在 X 上发布了这封公开信 (https://x.com/drpezeshkian/status/2039418009052119190)，距离美国和以色列对伊朗发动导致战争爆发的首次军事打击仅过去一个多月。特朗普总统预计将在周三晚间向美国公众发表讲话，更新冲突情况。
当天早些时候，特朗普在 Truth Social 上声称，“伊朗新政权总统”已请求停火。伊朗外交部发言人则在伊朗国家电视台的报道中表示，特朗普的说法“虚假且毫无根据”，美联社报道。
佩泽什基安在信中没有提及特朗普的说法。但他表示，“伊朗人民对其他国家没有敌意，包括美国、欧洲或邻国的人民。”
他强调：“尽管在不同历史时期拥有地缘和历史优势，伊朗在现代史上从未选择侵略、扩张、殖民或支配的道路。即便在经历占领、入侵和全球强权的持续压力之后——即便在军事上优于许多邻国——伊朗从未主动发动战争。然而，它始终坚定而勇敢地击退那些攻击它的人。”
他继续指出，美国在伊朗周边部署了大量军事力量，并补充说，“最近从这些基地发动的美国攻击清楚展示了这种军事存在的真实威胁。”
“在这种情况下，没有任何国家会放弃加强自身防御能力，”佩泽什基安说。“伊朗所做并持续在做的，是基于合法自卫的克制回应，绝不是发动战争或侵略。”
佩泽什基安质疑这场战争是否真正符合美国人民的利益，并指责美国“作为以色列的代理人”卷入战争。他声称，以色列“通过制造伊朗威胁，试图转移全球对其针对巴勒斯坦人罪行的关注。”
他写道：“‘美国优先’真的是美国政府今天的优先事项之一吗？我邀请你们看穿虚假信息机器——这是这场侵略的重要组成部分——而是去与那些访问过伊朗的人交谈。看看那些在伊朗受教育、如今在世界最负盛名的大学任教或在西方最先进科技公司工作的优秀伊朗移民。这些现实与那些关于伊朗及其人民的歪曲描述相符吗？”
自战争爆发以来，以色列和特朗普政府对为何发动对伊朗的战争给出了不断变化、有时甚至相互矛盾的解释。但特朗普及其政府官员此前否认美国是被以色列推入战争的，美以双方都声称这些打击是防御性或先发制人的，尽管两国都未提供伊朗准备攻击的证据。
在最初的打击发生几天后，当被问及以色列领导层是否将美国拉入冲突时，特朗普表示，他决定发动攻击是因为他认为伊朗会先动手。
特朗普在 3 月 3 日说：“根据谈判的进展，我认为他们会先发动攻击。我不希望那发生。所以，如果说有什么的话，我可能是迫使以色列采取行动。但以色列已经准备好了，我们也准备好了。”
民调显示，自战争开始以来，大多数美国人一直反对这场战争，一个月后在美国仍普遍不受欢迎，尽管许多共和党人支持它。
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has penned an open letter to the American public, in which he appealed to them to “look beyond” what he characterized as “the machinery of misinformation” amid the U.S.-Israeli war with his country.
“Portraying Iran as a threat is neither consistent with historical reality nor with present-day observable facts,” he wrote. “Such a perception is the product of political and economic whims of the powerful—the need to manufacture an enemy in order to justify pressure, maintain military dominance, sustain the arms industry, and control strategic markets. In such an environment, if a threat does not exist, it is invented.”
Pezeshkian’s open letter, which he shared on X on Wednesday afternoon, comes a little over a month after the U.S. and Israel launched the initial military strikes on Iran that began the war. President Donald Trump is expected to share an update on the conflict in a speech to the American public on Wednesday evening.
Earlier on Wednesday, Trump claimed in a Truth Social post that “Iran’s New Regime President” has requested a ceasefire. Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson said that Trump’s assertion was “false and baseless,” according to a report on Iranian state television, The Associated Press reported.
Pezeshkian did not mention Trump’s claim in his letter. But he said that “the Iranian people harbor no enmity toward other nations, including the people of America, Europe, or neighboring countries.”
“Despite its historical and geographical advantages at various times, Iran has never, in its modern history, chosen the path of aggression, expansion, colonialism, or domination,” he asserted. “Even after enduring occupation, invasion, and sustained pressure from global powers—and despite possessing military superiority over many of its neighbors—Iran has never initiated a war. Yet it has resolutely and bravely repelled those who have attacked it.”
He went on to say that the U.S. has deployed a significant portion of its military forces in the area surrounding Iran, adding that “recent American aggressions launched from these very bases have demonstrated how threatening such a military presence truly is.”
“Naturally, no country confronted with such conditions would forgo strengthening its defensive capabilities,” Pezeshkian said. “What Iran has done—and continued to do—is a measured response grounded in legitimate self-defense, and by no means an initiation of war or aggression.”
Pezeshkian questioned whether the war was truly in the interest of the American people, and accused the U.S. of entering the war “as a proxy for Israel.” He alleged that Israel, “by manufacturing an Iranian threat, seeks to divert global attention away from its crimes toward the Palestinians.”
“Is ‘America First’ truly among the priorities of the U.S. government today?” Pezeshkian said. “I invite you to look beyond the machinery of misinformation—an integral part of this aggression—and instead speak with those who have visited Iran. Observe the many accomplished Iranian immigrants—educated in Iran—who now teach and conduct research at the world’s most prestigious universities, or contribute to the most advanced technology firms in the West. Do these realities align with the distortions you are being told about Iran and its people?”
Israel and the Trump Administration have offered shifting and at times contradictory explanations for why they launched the war on Iran in the weeks since it began. But Trump and Administration officials have previously denied that the U.S. was pushed into the war by Israel, and both the U.S. and Israel have claimed that the strikes were defensive or preemptive, though neither has shared any evidence that Iran was preparing to attack them.
Asked days after the initial strikes if Israeli leadership pulled the U.S. into the conflict, Trump stated that he decided to attack because he believed that Iran would otherwise do so first.
“Based on the way the negotiation was going, I think they were going to attack first. And I didn't want that to happen. So, if anything, I might have forced Israel's hand. But Israel was ready and we were ready,” Trump said on March 3.
Polls indicate that most Americans have disapproved of the war since the beginning and that it remains widely unpopular in the U.S. a month in, despite the support of many Republicans.