Iran has said that the United States President Donald Trump is lying and desperate for a ceasefire in the ongoing crisis between the two countries.

A senior Iranian military commander, Major General Ali Abdollahi, stated this in a post via Telegram on Tuesday.

General Abdollahi stated that the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, IRGC has driven Israel and the US to despair and exhaustion, forcing them to desperately request a ceasefire

According to him, the armed forces would not allow the lying and delusional US president to create false narratives of the situation on the ground, especially on the subject of the Strait of Hormuz.

“US President Trump is lying and desperate for a ceasefire,” the Iranian military commander said.