Reaction from Iran to US Secretary of State Rubio: He openly and brazenly threatened Iranians

Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Ismail Bekayi harshly criticized the US blockade of Iranian ports. Spokesperson Bekayi targeted US Secretary of State Marco Rubio and said, "The US Secretary of State openly and brazenly threatened to starve the Iranians through the blockade and said, 'In the end, you have to eat.'"

"This is another admission that Washington has committed war crimes and adds to the existing atrocities of its wars of aggression and economic pressure against Iran. After years of unsuccessful policies of coercion, threats, sanctions, terrorism and aggression, the United States continues to repeat the same mistakes and only re-presents them under new names," Bekayi said.

Referring to Pulitzer Prize-winning American historian Barbara Tuchman's "March of Insanity: From Troy to Vietnam" in his criticism, Bekayi said, regarding the US's attitude, "This is an example of what historian Barbara Tuchman defines as 'The March of Insanity'. It is the continuation of a policy of action that ends in disaster, refusing to learn from its failures, and sinking further into its mistakes with each successive defeat."

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