Bekai: US claims that Iran started the war are a 'fabrication' to avoid responsibility for illegal aggression.
Tehran, Irena -. The spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Esmail Bakai, reacted strongly to the claim of the President of the United States Donald Trump that the ongoing war was started by Iran with its Islamic revolution in 1979, and said that such a "misleading narrative" is an invention designed to evade responsibility for the illegal "war of choice" against Iran.
Buckeye said the things in a post on X early Sunday.
"US officials have now advanced 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! '," he wrote.
"This fabrication is so blatant that any reasonable person would recognize it as false without hesitation. The Iranian revolution of 1979 was about restoring the country's sovereignty, freedom and human dignity. And of course, the bitter memory of American intervention, especially the CIA-backed coup in 1953, was still fresh in the minds of Iranians then, just as it is today," he continued.
"Military aggression has a clear definition. No matter how desperately American officials try to avoid the issue, they cannot erase from the minds of the American people or the world the fact that it is the United States that twice, in less than nine months, launched unprovoked aggression against Iran in the midst of diplomatic negotiations," the spokesman said, referring to the 12 days and 40 days of the US military strike and 22 days against Israel in June and February 22. 2026, respectively.
"They assassinated Iran's Supreme Leader and Iranian officials, killed and wounded our women and children, and destroyed our vital infrastructure.