The spokesman of Iran’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Esmaeil Baqaei, has launched this Thursday against the United States, which he accuses of driving a “coordinated campaign of disinformation” about alleged Iranian terrorism. According to Baqaei, “Washington wants to present itself as the victim” despite its “record of aggression,” and he suggested, through a meme from the animated series Los Simpson, that U.S. authorities are “disconnected from reality.”
“In its joint aggression against Iran, together with the Israeli regime, the United States not only committed abominable war crimes, but also serious acts of State terrorism through the cowardly assassination of Iranian officials and scientists,” the spokesman denounced in a post on social media in which he criticized the “fabricated headlines” with which, in his view, Washington intends for the world to ignore its own self and its prolonged history of aggression and terrorism, and to accept unfounded claims about a ‘terrorist plot’.”
The Foreign Affairs representative also stressed that “no media frenzy can rewrite history, erase responsibility, or hide the identity of the true perpetrators of aggression, terrorism, and war crimes.”
In his message, Baqaei accompanied the text with a Los Simpson meme in which the school principal, Professor Skinner, questions whether he is “disconnected from reality” in order, immediately afterward, to rule out that option and conclude that it is the students who are wrong—a comparison that the spokesman directs at U.S. authorities.
Rezaei issues threats to U.S. military allies
The Foreign Affairs spokesman’s statement came as other senior officials of the Islamic Republic took the opportunity to issue new warnings to Washington.
Among them is Mohsen Rezaei, secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, who, in a message on social media, warned that “if the United States unleashes another war against Iran, every military base involved in the aggression— from West Asia to Europe—will be a legitimate target for deadly attacks by Iran,” thus extending the threat not only to Washington, but also to the countries that support it in a possible offensive.
For his part, the commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard, Ahmad Vahidi, has defended that the country’s missile program will not be slowed down by “threats or sanctions”, despite the restrictions imposed in recent years by several states, with special prominence from the United States.
“Under the protection of its efforts, Iran is building itself stronger and stronger. Let the enemy know that the path of the martyr Tehrani Moqadam (considered the father of the Iranian missile program) is not a road that can be stopped by threats or sanctions; it is a path that endures thanks to blood and faith,” he emphasized in a statement.