Baqaei made the remarks in a post on X early Sunday.
“American officials have now come up with a new deceptive narrative to evade responsibility for the catastrophic human, economic, and geopolitical consequences of their unlawful aggression against Iran: ‘America did not start the war with Iran; the Iranians started it with the 1979 Revolution!’,” he wrote.
“This fabrication is so blatant that any reasonable person would recognize it as false with no hesitation. The Iranian Revolution of 1979 was about reclaiming the country’s sovereignty, freedom, and human dignity. And, of course, the bitter memory of American interference, particularly the 1953 CIA-backed coup, was still fresh in the minds of Iranians then, just as it is today,” he continued.
“Military aggression has a clear definition. No matter how desperately American officials try to evade the issue, they cannot erase from the minds of the American people or the world the fact that it was the United States that twice, in less than nine months, launched unprovoked aggression against Iran in the midst of diplomatic negotiations,” the spokesperson said, referring to the 12-day and 40-day military attacks launched by the US and Israel against Iran in June 2025 and February 2026, respectively.
“They assassinated Iran’s Supreme Leader and senior Iranian officials, killed and wounded our women and children, and destroyed our vital infrastructure. Now that the US administration has run into a military and political dead end, it is trying both to deny responsibility for starting the war and to conceal its failure to achieve its objectives behind a narrative of victory. This is despite the fact that, at the highest levels, the American political establishment has acknowledged that the war against Iran was the principal cause of its electoral defeat.”
Further in his X post, Baqaei cited several instances of US hostility toward the Iranian nation.
“But if the American officials are referring to the historical roots of the conflict when they speak of who started the hostilities, then they would do well to turn the pages of history further back: to the August 1953 CIA-backed coup; to Washington’s political, intelligence, military, and financial support for Saddam’s regime in its eight-year long aggression against Iran; to the Reagan administration’s complicity with Iraq in its use of chemical weapons against Iranians; to its obstruction of any serious effort by the UN Security Council to hold Saddam’s regime accountable; to the direct involvement of the US Navy in Saddam’s military aggression against Iran in April 1988; to the downing of an Iranian civilian airliner over the Persian Gulf in July 1988, killing all 290 people on board; to sweeping economic sanctions designed to inflict harm on Iranian people; to the unilateral withdrawal from the JCPOA, and the reinstatement of the maximum pressure campaign; to the assassination of Qassem Soleimani, a national hero to Iranians and a prominent figure across the region; and to many other interventions, each of which has helped shape the history of Washington’s hostility toward Iran.”
“The United States cannot escape responsibility for its decision to launch an unlawful war of choice against Iran on 28 February 2026 by turning back the clock or redefining the meaning of war. The United States has been both the instigator of historical hostility toward the Iranian Nation and the initiator of military aggression against Iran,” the Iranian diplomat concluded.
