Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei has accused the United States of attempting to rewrite the history of its military aggression against Iran and evade responsibility for the devastating human, economic and geopolitical consequences of the war.

In a post on his X account late Saturday, Baghaei condemned what he described as Washington's latest attempt to justify its aggression by blaming the 1979 Islamic Revolution for the conflict.

"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!'" Baghaei wrote.

He dismissed the argument as an obvious fabrication, stressing that the Islamic Revolution of 1979 was a struggle by the Iranian people to reclaim their national sovereignty, freedom and human dignity.

"This fabrication is so blatant that any reasonable person would recognize it as false with no hesitation," he said.

Baghaei also recalled the history of American intervention in Iran, particularly the CIA-backed coup of 1953 that overthrew the democratically elected government of Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh, saying the bitter memory of foreign interference remained deeply rooted in the Iranian people's collective consciousness.

"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 added.

'The United States twice launched unprovoked aggression against Iran'

The Iranian spokesman emphasized that military aggression has a clear definition and cannot be concealed through political rhetoric or historical revisionism.

He accused Washington of launching two unprovoked military attacks against Iran in less than nine months, both while diplomatic negotiations were underway.

"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," Baghaei said.

He further accused the United States of carrying out assassinations targeting Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei and senior Iranian officials, while killing and injuring women and children and destroying vital infrastructure.

Washington attempting to conceal military and political failure

Baghaei argued that the US administration's changing rhetoric reflected its inability to achieve its military and political objectives against Iran.

He said Washington, having reached what he described as a military and political dead end, was now attempting to deny responsibility for initiating the war while presenting its outcome as a victory.

The spokesman also pointed to what he described as acknowledgments within the highest levels of the American political establishment that the war against Iran had been a major factor behind the administration's electoral defeat.

His remarks came amid heightened tensions between Tehran and Washington, with Iran continuing to reject American attempts to justify military action against the country and insisting that its sovereignty, territorial integrity and national security must be respected.

Baghaei's statement underscored Tehran's position that the Iranian people's struggle for independence and sovereignty cannot be used as a pretext to legitimize foreign military aggression or absolve Washington of responsibility for its actions. (ILKHA)