Iran denounced this Saturday that the United States openly threatens to starve the Iranian people through the economic blockade imposed on the country, after US Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, affirmed that the sanctions are taking effect and warned that Iranians “eventually have to eat.”
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“The US Secretary of State has openly and shamelessly threatened to starve Iranians through a blockade. This is a new admission that Washington is committing war crimes,” criticized the spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Ministry, Esmail Bagaei, on X.
Last Tuesday, after the meeting in Paris of the G7 foreign ministers (USA, Japan, Germany, the United Kingdom, France, Italy and Canada), Rubio assured that the sanctions and the naval blockade are seriously affecting the Iranian economy, so he considered that, for now, new military attacks are not necessary.
Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei accused Washington of pursuing war crimes through its economic blockade of Iran, citing remarks by US Secretary of State Marco Rubio about Iranians’ need to eat.
In a post on X Saturday, Baghaei said Rubio’s comments amounted to…
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“The suffering they are experiencing is that, in the end, they have to eat. In the end, they have to be able to pay their own fighters and their security forces,” he said.
For the Iranian spokesman, these statements show that, “after decades of pressure, threats, sanctions, terrorism and failed aggressions, the United States continues to repeat the same mistakes, simply presenting them under new names.”
After the war started by Washington and Tel Aviv against Tehran more than eight months ago, the US has implemented a series of measures to pressure the Islamic Republic.
These include the naval blockade, which began in April and resumed in July, the intensification of sanctions, including those imposed on Iranian airlines, as part of Operation Economic Pariah, launched in August, and Operation Iron Gate, announced in November to restrict the transport of sanctioned goods by land routes and across the Caspian Sea.
Iranian President, Masud Pezeshkian, warned last October that many Iranians have difficulties even getting “their daily bread” due to the war and the situation of uncertainty the country is going through.
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