The spokesman of the Iranian Foreign Ministry, Esmail Bagai, condemned in a post on X the statements of the US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who accuses Washington of openly threatening to starve the Iranians through a blockade.
In response to Rubio's statement that the Iranians "must eat in the end", Bakai described the words as another admission of Washington's intention to commit war crimes against Iran.
He accused the US of persisting in a decades-old policy of coercion, sanctions and military aggression despite repeated failures, arguing that Washington continues to pursue the same policy under different names.