Iranian foreign ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baqaei has said slammed the US officials for coming up with “a new deceptive narrative to evade responsibility for the catastrophic human, economic, and geopolitical consequences of their unlawful aggression against Iran”
He said in a post on X that the US assertion that Iran started the ongoing conflict with Iran with the 1979 Revolution was a “fabrication is so blatant that any reasonable person would recognise it as false with no hesitation”.
“The Iranian Revolution of 1979 was about reclaiming the country’s sovereignty, freedom, and human dignity. And, of course, the bitter memory of American interference, particularly the 1953 CIA-backed coup was still fresh in the minds of Iranians then, just as it is today,” he added.
Baqaei went on to say that military aggression had a clear definition.
“No matter how desperately American officials try to evade the issue, they cannot erase from the minds of the American people or the world the fact that it was the United States that twice, in less than nine months, launched unprovoked aggression against Iran in the midst of diplomatic negotiations. They assassinated Iran’s supreme leader and senior Iranian officials, killed and wounded our women and children, and destroyed our vital infrastructure.
“Now that the US administration has run into a military and political dead end, it is trying both to deny responsibility for starting the war and to conceal its failure to achieve its objectives behind a narrative of victory. This is despite the fact that, at the highest levels, the American political establishment has acknowledged that the war against Iran was the principal cause of its electoral defeat,” he said.
Baqaei said the US could “not escape responsibility for its decision to launch unlawful war of choice against Iran on Feb 28, 2026 by turning back the clock or redefining the meaning of war. The United States has been both the instigator of historical hostility toward the Iranian nation and the initiator of military aggression against Iran”.
