Spokesman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Iran. Esmaeil Baghaei:
US officials have now come up with a new deceptive narrative to evade responsibility for the catastrophic human, economic and geopolitical consequences of their illegal aggression against Iran: "America did not start the war with Iran; the Iranians started it with the 1979 revolution! ".
If American officials mean the historical roots of the conflict when they talk about who started hostilities, then they would do well to turn the pages of history further back: to the August 1953 CIA-backed coup.
Now that the US administration has reached a military and political impasse, it is trying both to deny responsibility for starting the war and to hide its failure to achieve its goals behind a narrative of victory.