Iran has rejected comments by US Secretary of State Marco Rubio blaming Tehran-backed armed groups for instability in the Middle East, arguing instead that US policy and Israeli military actions are driving conflict across the region.
Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei responded in a post on X alongside a clip of Rubio criticising Iraq-based armed groups, as well as Hezbollah and Hamas.
“No one will be fooled,” Baghaei wrote.
“We can’t have a peaceful region so long as American militarism and interventionism persist, and their occupying proxy [Israel] continues, with absolute impunity, to inflict endless wars across the region and perpetrate genocide, terror violence and every atrocities.”
