SAEDNEWS: Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baqaei says the United States has openly admitted its intention to commit war crimes by threatening to starve the Iranian people through a blockade.
According to Saednews, In a post published on his X account on Saturday, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baqaei referred to remarks by US Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who said that Iranians would eventually have to eat. Baqaei described the statement as an explicit and outrageous threat to starve the Iranian population through a blockade.
“This is yet another admission that Washington is pursuing war crimes, adding to the atrocities it has already committed through its wars of aggression and economic terrorism against Iran,” he stated.
He stressed that despite decades of failed efforts to force Iran into submission through pressure, threats, sanctions, terrorism and military aggression, the United States continues to repeat its past mistakes, simply repackaging its policies under “new names.”
Baqaei described Washington’s strategy as a clear example of what historian Barbara Tuchman termed a March of Folly—a situation in which governments persist with disastrous policies, ignore the lessons of past failures and become increasingly committed to their mistakes despite repeated defeats.
Iran and the United States signed a memorandum of understanding in June aimed at ending the cycle of conflict triggered by the latest unprovoked US-Israeli aggression against the Islamic Republic, which began on February 28.
However, Washington subsequently sought to undermine Iran’s sovereignty over the Strait of Hormuz by establishing an unsafe corridor near Omani territorial waters. The United States also resumed its airstrikes against Iran and imposed a naval blockade on the country, violating the agreement intended to end the hostilities.
