Baqaei: US threats of starvation show it has learned nothing from past failures

Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Esmail Baqaei said on X that US threats to impose starvation on Iranians reflect Washington’s continued failure to learn from its past mistakes and defeats describing the threats as an admission of intent to commit further war crimes.

 

“They have to eat eventually,” the U.S. Secretary of State has declared - openly and insolently threatening to starve Iranians through a blockade. This is yet another admission that Washington is pursuing war crimes, compounding the atrocities it has already committed in its wars of aggression and economic terrorism against Iran. After decades of failed coercion, threats, sanctions, terrorism, and aggression, the United States continues to repeat the same mistakes, merely repackaging them under new names. This is a textbook example of what historian Barbara Tuchman described as a March of Folly: a government persisting in a disastrous course of action, refusing to learn from its failures, and becoming even more entrenched in its mistakes with every successive defeat.

— Esmaeil Baqaei (@IRIMFA_SPOX) November 14, 2026