President Donald Trump warned in his State of the Union address that Iran has "sinister ambitions" with its nuclear program and that the U.S. has not yet heard from Tehran that it will "never have a nuclear weapon." 

The remarks come as the U.S. and Iran are gearing up for another round of negotiations on Thursday.  

"After Midnight Hammer, they were warned to make no future attempts to rebuild their weapons program and, in particular, nuclear weapons. Yet they continue starting it all over. We wiped it out, and they want to start all over again and are at this moment again pursuing their sinister ambitions," Trump said Tuesday, referencing the U.S. strikes on Iranian nuclear facilities last summer. 

"We are in negotiations with them. They want to make a deal, but we haven't heard those secret words, ‘We will never have a nuclear weapon,’" Trump added. "My preference is to solve this problem through diplomacy. But one thing is certain, I will never allow the world's number one sponsor of terror, which they are by far, to have a nuclear weapon. Can't let that happen." 

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"For decades it had been the policy of the United States never to allow Iran to obtain a nuclear weapon. Many decades. Since they seized control of that proud nation 47 years ago, the regime and its murderous proxies have spread nothing but terrorism and death and hate," Trump also said during his speech. "They've killed and maimed thousands of American service members and hundreds of thousands and even millions of people with what's called roadside bombs. They were the kings of the roadside bomb. And we took out [Iranian Gen. Qassim] Soleimani. I did that during my first term. Had a huge impact. He was the father of the roadside bomb." 

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"And just over the last couple of months with the protests, they've killed, at least, it looks like 32,000 protesters in their own country. They shot them and hung them. We stopped them from hanging a lot of them, with the threat of serious violence. But this is some terrible people. They've already developed missiles that can threaten Europe and our bases overseas, and they're working to build missiles that will soon reach the United States of America," Trump said.

Iranian foreign ministry spokesperson Esmail Baghaei said following Trump’s address that, "No one should be fooled by these prominent untruths." 

"Whatever they're alleging in regards to Iran's nuclear program, Iran's ballistic missiles, and the number of casualties during January's unrest is simply the repetition of ‘big lies,’" Baghaei claimed on X. 

The mother of a Virginia teen praised President Donald Trump for shining "a light" on her daughter’s case during his State of the Union address and vowed to continue her lawsuit against the school she accused of secretly socially transitioning her child without parental consent.

"It meant the world. It was very surreal," Michele Blair, mother of Sage Blair, said Wednesday as she reflected on the president’s remarks.

Sage was recognized as one of Trump's guests during his address to Congress, where he detailed her story before a national audience. 

The president said Sage was 14 when school officials in Virginia "sought to socially transition her to a new gender," treating her as a boy and allegedly hiding it from her parents.

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Trump described how Sage ran away from home, was placed in an all-boys state facility after a ruling from a judge and was later returned to her family. He praised her resilience, calling her "a proud and wonderful young woman" who now has a full scholarship to Liberty University.

"I’m just so grateful that a light has been shown on this dark topic because it’s happening to so many children like Sage," Blair told Carley Shimkus.

"They [the school] glorified the fact that… she wanted to identify as a boy, and she was being horribly bullied… Had things been different, and they called me and brought me in and told me about the bullying, I could have saved her a lifetime of nightmares," she added.

Attorney Vernadette Broyles alleged that after running away, Sage was sex trafficked across multiple states before being recovered by law enforcement in Texas and later transferred to Maryland.

"It was a nightmare that… I don't know if she'll ever get beyond," Blair told "Fox & Friends First."

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Broyles said the family’s legal battle is already underway in federal court.

"We have a Title IX claim that is pending right now in the Western District of Federal Court in Virginia on behalf of Sage herself," she said.

She said the complaint is being amended to include a religious free exercise claim, arguing that Michele Blair’s parental rights to direct her daughter’s religious upbringing were violated.

"This is a deeply broken young woman that was kept in the system," Broyles said.

"So these are the consequences that can come about, the harms, when schools keep secrets from loving parents."

Fox News previously reached out to Appomattox County Public Schools for a statement but did not hear back.