Bekai: The US admits that it is committing war crimes, economic terrorism against Iran.
Tehran, Irena. Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmail Bakai says the United States has openly acknowledged its pursuit of war crimes by threatening to starve the Iranian people through a blockade.
In a post on his X account on Saturday, Bakay quoted US Secretary of State Marco Rubio as saying that Iranians will eventually have to eat, describing it as an open and brazen threat to starve the Iranian people through a blockade.
"This is another admission that Washington is pursuing war crimes, and consolidating the atrocities it has already committed in its wars of aggression and economic terror against Iran," he added.
Despite decades of failed attempts to force Iran to surrender through coercion, threats, sanctions, terrorism and aggression, the United States continues to repeat the same mistakes, and only presents its policies "under new names", he emphasized.
The Iranian spokesman described Washington's approach as a textbook example of what historian Barbara Tuchman called a "march of folly," in which governments persist in disastrous policies, refuse to learn from past failures, and become more entrenched in their mistakes with each successive defeat.
Iran and the US signed a memorandum of understanding in June to end the cycle stemming from the latest bout of unprovoked US-Israeli aggression against the Islamic Republic, which began on February 28.
However, the US tried to undermine Iran's sovereignty over the Strait of Hormuz by establishing an unsafe corridor off the coast of Oman. The US also renewed its airstrikes on Iran and imposed a naval blockade on the country in violation of the agreement ending the war.