Araghchi, 'Rubio repeats the same nonsense as Pompeo'

The Iranian Foreign Minister, Abbas Araghchi, has challenged the US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, accusing him of speaking "nonsense" after the latter stated that the precarious economic conditions in Iran will have an impact on the choices of the Tehran administration in the conflict with the United States.

“Eight years ago, a cartoon character like (former Secretary of State Mike) Pompeo said that Iranians must follow White House diktats 'if they want to eat.' Today, Rubio - whose fellow Cubans are victims of the same policy - repeats this nonsense.

Let's leave aside the inhumanity. It is delusions that generate the failure of US politics," Araghchi said in a message on X.

"Sooner or later you have to eat, you have to pay your fighters, your security forces.

I think, as time goes on, it will have an impact...

In the end, economic reality manages to make its way into the heads of even the most radical of fools," Marco Rubio declared yesterday.