Leader’s advisor to Rubio: You have ‘no right’ to lecture others on morality
Velayati warns Rubio against “lecturing others on morality” after the US secretary of state tried to disparage the Iranian nation’s steadfastness in the face of aggressors.
A senior advisor to Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Mojtaba Khamenei has warned US Secretary of State Marco Rubio against “lecturing others on morality” after he glorified ancient Greeks’ wartime resistance while trying to disparage the Iranian nation’s steadfastness in the face of aggressors.
Ali Akbar Velayati made the remarks in a post on X on Saturday after Rubio hailed the Greeks for “choosing to fight to the last man rather than abandon their post or abandon their duty” during the confrontation with the Achaemenids in 480 BC. The US top diplomat, meanwhile, tried to denigrate Iran’s way of “portraying martyrdom as an end to itself.”
Velayati denounced the speech for containing such “an obvious contradiction.”
“Praising resistance when it serves ‘one’s own’ and denigrating it when it comes from ‘the other’ is not civilization; it is sophistry in the service of domination. Mr. Rubio, your problem is not with the Islamic Revolution; It is with a strong, independent Iranian civilization,” he wrote.
“Those who brought about the catastrophes of Hiroshima, Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan have no right to lecture others on morality!”
Earlier, Major General Mohsen Rezaei, secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council (SNSC), invoked the ancient defeat of Rome by Sasanian king Shapur I to counter the US official’s distorted narrative.
