Iran Denies Trump's Claim of Ceasefire Request: Pretext to Avoid War!

Iran has strongly denied claims by United States (US) President Donald Trump that a number of Tehran officials contacted him to request that attacks be stopped. Iranian authorities described Trump’s claim as ‘false’ and a ‘pretext to avoid war’.

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), as reported by Press TV and Anadolu Agency on Thursday (11/6/2026), categorically rejected Trump’s claim.

In a statement issued on Thursday (11/6) morning, the IRGC’s public relations office called the US President’s claim a ‘pretext to avoid war’.

‘Trump’s claim that Iranian officials have contacted him is strongly denied and is a pretext to avoid war,’ the IRGC stressed in its statement.

Several Iranian news agencies also denied Trump’s claim, citing security sources in Tehran.

A report by Tasnim News Agency called the claim an ‘absolute lie’, asserting that Iran would deliver a ‘devastating response’ to the latest US military aggression against the country.

Iran’s state television, quoting an unnamed senior Iranian official, described Trump’s claim as intended to ‘cover up America’s retreat from confrontation with Tehran’.

Iran’s denial came after Trump revealed in an interview with US media outlet Fox News that he had spoken directly with a number of Iranian officials, who asked him to ‘stop the bombing’.

Trump added that the bombing ‘will stop soon’, referring to the latest wave of US strikes targeting locations in Iran. However, he also stressed that the US reserves the right to attack again.

The statement emerged amid mounting tensions in the Middle East, following the latest US attacks on southern Iran and Tehran’s retaliatory strikes against Washington’s bases in the region.