Ashena: Iran ended eight-year war through negotiation

Hossam al-Din Ashna, former advisor to Iran's president, made claims in a post on the social media network X regarding the end of the Iran-Iraq War and the status of ongoing negotiations. In this post, he argued that Iran had previously been able to end the eight-year war with Iraq through the negotiation channel and related this experience to today's circumstances. Ashna also referenced the moment of Saddam Hussein's execution and wrote that the last sentences Saddam heard before his death were in the Persian language. Subsequently, he raised the question of what language the last sentences that Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu will hear will be.

• Hossam al-Din Ashna published this post as a public post on the social media network X.
• In this post, Ashna explicitly referred to the "eight-year imposed war" and considered it a war that Iraq imposed on Iran.
• He claimed that Iran brought this prolonged war to an end not through military means, but through the path of negotiation.
• Ashna referenced Saddam Hussein's execution and wrote that the last sentences Saddam heard before his death were in the Persian language.
• This reference apparently relates to reports in which the presence of Persian-speaking individuals or Persian phrases at the moment of Saddam's execution was mentioned, but the text of the post does not provide further details on this matter.
• In the final section of his post, Ashna posed a question to his audience: "What language will the last sentences that Trump and Netanyahu hear be in?"
• This question appeared in media coverage without direct interpretation, but its tone is such that it is perceived as evoking an implicit threat or warning.
• The author's full name is mentioned in all media outlets as "Hossam al-Din Ashna" and his position is identified with the title "advisor."
• None of the covering media outlets have reported an official reaction from Iranian or foreign parties to this post.
• The text of the post has not appeared completely and without omission in any of the sources, and all media outlets have only cited portions of it.. Coverage difference: Jam'aran and Shargh newspaper explicitly included the final question about Trump and Netanyahu in the headline or summary, thereby highlighting the provocative dimension of the post more prominently, while Tejarat News omitted this section from the main headline and focused coverage on the claim regarding the negotiated end of the war. None of the media outlets fact-checked the accuracy or inaccuracy of Ashna's claims and all reflected the content solely in the form of direct quotation from a political figure.