TEHRAN – Iran has brushed aside “futile” attempts by the U.S. and its three main European allies to launch a propaganda campaign against the Islamic Republic, saying the anti-Iran measure is a “threadbare tactic” employed to conceal their own challenges at home and abroad.
In a thread of tweets , Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani dismissed claims by U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken about Iran’ nuclear on the sidelines of the 2023 Munich Security Conference (MSC) in the Bavarian capital.
Blinken also repeated accusations of “human rights abuses” against Iran and expressed Washington’s worries about deepening military cooperation between the Islamic Republic and Russia.
“Creating external crises and playing a blame game is a threadbare tactic used by the West and the Zionist apartheid regime to cover up their internal crises amid recurrent waves of public protests and strikes, especially since they are also facing tough challenges in the international arena,” Kanaani said
“The media frenzy of the American regime and some European countries about Iran is a futile attempt in fomenting Iranophobia to justify their illegal and anti-human rights actions against the Iranian people,” he added.
This year’s Munich Security Conference, which started on Friday, was convened while representatives of Russia and Iran were denied participation.
Iran has sent a senior official to the conference since at least 2009, according to the event’s official website, with the exception of the years 2011-12 — when the country was sanctioned by the U.S. and the European Union — and 2021, following the COVID-19 pandemic.