Iranian state-linked media has amplified claims that US President Donald Trump’s conduct toward Iran raises serious questions about his mental fitness, as Tehran portrays the American president’s threats, reversals and public outbursts as a danger to global peace.
Press TV reported that the Iranian Psychological Society sent an open letter to psychologists in the United States calling for professional dialogue over what it described as serious psychological and personality concerns about Trump.
The letter, according to the Iranian outlet, pointed to Trump’s impulsivity, hostile rhetoric, narcissistic behavior, delusional thinking and apparent disconnection from reality.
The Iranian coverage comes as Trump’s handling of the ceasefire with Iran has grown increasingly erratic. Since the truce, Tehran’s position has remained broadly consistent: Iran says it will not accept humiliation, will not abandon its sovereignty, and will only move forward through clearly agreed terms.
Trump, by contrast, has repeatedly shifted his public position.
At different points, he has claimed victory, claimed Iran wanted a deal, claimed a signing was imminent, denied reported terms, attacked media coverage as fake, and presented vague or contradictory versions of what Washington and Tehran had actually agreed.
That contrast has now become central to Iran’s political messaging: Tehran is trying to show that it is the disciplined actor, while Trump is the unstable one.
Iranian outlets have tied the claims to Trump’s repeated threats against Iran, including warnings of devastating attacks, while also highlighting criticism from inside the United States from politicians and commentators who have described his behavior as reckless, unstable or unfit for command.
The criticism lands harder because Trump himself has repeatedly tried to prove his mental fitness in public.
Rather than calming questions about his age and judgment, Trump has repeatedly posted or boasted that doctors found him in “perfect health” and that he “aced” cognitive exams. He has claimed that passing such tests proves his intelligence, while attacking Barack Obama and Joe Biden as people who would supposedly fail them.
But a leader repeatedly posting his own “sanity checks” only deepens the spectacle.
No secure president needs to keep waving doctor notes at the public. No calm commander-in-chief responds to questions about judgment by shouting about cognitive tests, blaming Obama, or insisting that every criticism is fake news.
That is the opening Iranian media has seized.
For Tehran, the argument is no longer only that Trump’s Iran policy is dangerous. It is that Trump himself is dangerous — a man with command over the US military who appears unable to maintain a stable public line for more than a few days.
Press TV also ran a separate report citing American politicians who condemned Trump’s threats against Iran, with some critics raising constitutional questions over whether a president making such threats should remain in command.
The reports do not amount to a clinical diagnosis, and no US medical authority has publicly assessed Trump’s mental health in connection with the Iranian claims.
But Iranian media is now openly framing Trump’s behavior as a security threat.
The argument is simple: when one side holds its position and the other side keeps changing the story, the instability is not in Tehran.
It is in Washington.