Iran has sharply criticized and mocked former U.S. President Donald Trump’s recent threat of a nuclear strike against the country. Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmail Baghaei described Trump’s comments as a “strange contradiction,” highlighting the inconsistency between calls for peace and threats of massive bombing. Baghaei made the remarks in a post on social media platform X.

In his post, Baghaei attached a clip from the 1964 American film “Dr. Strangelove,” directed by Stanley Kubrick, a satirical anti-war movie about an accidental nuclear strike on the Soviet Union and the United States’ failure to prevent it. Trump had told reporters on Thursday that if a ceasefire with Iran failed, “you will only see large-scale bombings coming out of Iran.”

According to the report, Trump has made halting Tehran’s nuclear program one of the key conditions for ending the conflict with Iran.