Iran slams West’s anti-Iran propaganda as ‘threadbare tactic’ to cover up own crises

The Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman has slammed as “futile” the attempts by the US 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.

Nasser Kana’ani made the remark in a thread of tweets after US Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s made unfounded claims over Iran’s nuclear program and its non-cooperation with the International Atomic Energy Agency in a meeting with the foreign ministers of France, Germany and the United Kingdom on the sidelines of the 2023 Munich Security Conference (MSC) in the Bavarian capital.

Blinken repeated baseless, alleged concerns over Iran’s “human rights abuses” and Iran-Russia deepening two-way military cooperation.

"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,” Kana’ani tweeted.

“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 US and the European Union — and 2021, following the COVID-19 pandemic.

Iran was excluded due to what was claimed to be “rights abuses” during the recent protests after the death of a young woman of Kurdish descent in the capital Tehran, and Russia for its military campaign in the neighboring Ukraine to demilitarize and denazify it.

Iran condemns ‘meddlesome’ sanctions by EU, UK over alleged rights violations during unrest

Tehran denounces as “baseless, illegal and meddlesome” the recent EU and UK sanctions over alleged human rights violations.

The riots broke out in Iran in mid-September after the death of a 22-year-old Iranian woman in police custody.

Mahsa Amini fainted at a police station in Tehran and was pronounced dead three days later in a hospital. An official report by Iran’s Legal Medicine Organization concluded that Amini’s death was caused by illness rather than alleged blows to the head or other vital body organs.

Iran’s intelligence community has said several countries, including the United States and the UK, have used their spy and propaganda apparatuses to provoke violent riots in the country.

Rioters went on a rampage, brutally attacking security officers and causing massive damage to public property. Dozens of people and security personnel were killed in the riots. 

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