“Playing victim can not whitewash your harrowing war crimes and crimes against humanity against the nation of Iran,” Iran’s foreign ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baqaei says in response to remarks by US Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

“Every accusation is a confession!” Baqaei wrote, commenting on a video of Rubio stating that the US had arrested and convicted people for allegedly “plotting the assassination of American political leaders, including the president of the United States”.