Iran’s foreign ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baqaei has asserted that it was the “reckless warmongering of the US and Israeli regimes” that led to the insecurity in vital energy routes.

“The next grand lie being rolled out to justify their illegal ‘war of choice’ is the claim that they are ‘preserving peace and stability in global energy markets’,” he said on X.

“In reality, though, it was the reckless warmongering of the US and Israeli regimes that shattered promising diplomatic processes and, through an unprovoked military aggression against Iran, deliberately injected insecurity into vital energy routes — only then to accuse Iran of destabilisation, in order to put into practice Goebbels’ infamous dictum: ‘Accuse others of what you yourself are doing’,” he wrote.

“This is their familiar, cynical playbook: manufacture crisis and war, then escalate further under the noble banner of ‘restoring stability’ and ‘defending peace’,” Baqaei further said.