Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Ismail Baqaei: American 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! ".
This invention is so blatant that any reasonable person would identify 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 of 1953, was still fresh in the minds of Iranians then, just as it is today. 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 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 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. This despite the fact that at the highest levels, the American political establishment admitted that the war against Iran was the main cause of its electoral defeat.