Araghchi warns US of rising economic costs from ‘war of choice’
Tehran
Iran has prepared a mechanism to manage traffic through the Strait of Hormuz along a designated route that will be unveiled soon, the head of the Iranian parliament’s national security committee Ebrahim Azizi said on Saturday.
Azizi added that only commercial vessels and parties cooperating with Iran would benefit from the arrangement. He said fees would be collected for specialised services provided under the mechanism.
‘War of choice’
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi warned that the US would face growing economic consequences from its “war of choice” on Iran.
On X, Araghchi said Americans would be forced to bear the rising costs of a conflict with Tehran. “Put aside gas price hike and stock market bubble. Real pain begins when US debt and mortgage rates start to jump,” he said.
‘Decadent civilisation’
Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baghaei invoked anti-colonial writer Aimé Césaire to criticise what he described as the West’s moral decline, hypocrisy and inability to address crises stemming from its own wars and policies of domination.
In a post on X, Baghaei quoted from Césaire’s seminal work, Discourse on Colonialism, writing, “A civilisation that was incapable of solving the problems it created was a decadent civilisation; a civilisation that chooses to close its eyes to its most crucial problems is a sick civilisation.”
He also cited another passage from the work, saying: “A civilisation that plays fast and loose with its principles is a dying civilisation.”
“Increasingly, it takes refuge in a hypocrisy which is all the more odious because it is less and less likely to deceive,” he added.
Baghaei’s remarks came amid the ongoing US-Israeli war on Iran, which he suggested had exposed growing divisions within the Western alliance and intensified global economic instability.
What Washington and Tel Aviv initially presented as a decisive campaign to weaken Iran and force political capitulation, he argued, has instead developed into a prolonged and costly regional confrontation with no clear outcome in sight.
‘Tehran rebuke’
Permanent Mission of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the United Nations accused the US of attempting to manufacture a “false image” of international support for its actions through a politically motivated draft resolution at the United Nations.
In a statement posted on X, the Iranian mission said it had become “crystal clear” that Washington was seeking to exploit the number of co-sponsors backing the resolution to justify what it described as “ongoing unlawful actions” and pave the way for “further military adventurism in the region.”
The Iranian mission further warned that any future escalation by the US would also place responsibility on countries supporting the resolution. “No political excuse or diplomatic cover can absolve them of responsibility for facilitating, enabling, and legitimising US aggression,” it added.
