EXCLUSIVE: Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Rejects Trump’s “Big Lie” About Why He Went to War
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March 4, 2026 · 28 min
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In an exclusive interview, Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister Esmail Baghaei rejects Trump's claims about the rationale for war with Iran.
In an exclusive interview with Drop Site News, Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Esmail Baghaei rejected President Donald Trump’s claim that he launched the war because Iran was “going to attack first,” calling it a “big lie.” “There was no intention on the part of Iran to attack the United States,” he said. “They claim that Iran posed an imminent threat to the United States,” Baghaei added. “Did we come to the Gulf of Mexico to target Los Angeles and other U.S. cities? Or did they come 6,500 miles away to Iranian shores?” On Monday, Secretary of State Marco Rubio told reporters that the U.S. decided to preemptively attack Iran because the White House knew Israel was going to begin bombing Iran and that Iran would strike back. “We knew that that would precipitate an attack against American forces, and we knew that if we didn’t pre-emptively go after them before they launched those attacks, we would suffer higher casualties.” On Tuesday, Trump sought to recast the U.S. rationale and said that he believed Iran was going to launch an attack first. “They were going to attack if we didn’t do it. They were going to attack first—I felt strongly about that,” Trump said, charging that the…
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Host: Drop Site News
Guest: Esmail Baghaei
Topics covered
- Iran
- U.S. foreign policy
- Trump administration
- military conflict
- interview
Keywords
- Iran
- Trump
- Baghaei
- military conflict
- U.S. foreign policy
- Marco Rubio
- preemptive attack
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