‘Nazi and Fascist thinking’: Iran blasts US invoking 2,000-year-old war

The spokesman for the Iranian Foreign Ministry says attempts by some American officials to justify the ongoing war of aggression by the United States on Iran is a reminder of Adolf Hitler’s mindset and the Nazi and Fascist thinking before and during World War II.

Esmaeil Baghaei made the remarks in a post on his X account on Tuesday night, after US Senator Lindsey Graham, the GOP’s godfather, claimed that America’s 2026 war efforts against the Islamic Republic could end a “2,000-year-long conflict.”

In similar controversial comments, Steve Bannon, an American political strategist and an extremist theorist of the Republicans, just recently advised the White House to execute what Alexander the Great did against Iran some 2,300 years ago by overthrowing the Achaemenid dynasty.

“Such distorted historical references are revealingly similar to Nazi and Fascist thinking; Adolf Hitler justified invading other countries by invoking ‘Lebensraum’ and praising Roman empire. Mussolini used the glory of the Roman empire to excuse his aggressions in North Africa,” Baghaei said.

“Even though the U.S. has no ancient empire, if it now claims to represent the ‘West’ and uses European history to justify its brutal military aggression on Iranian nation, it’s in fact reviving the same dangerous pre-WWII FASCIST mindset – torpedoing the very modern values of human rights and international law the West claims to stand for. That’s unprecedentedly alarming,” he added.

In a separate post on X on Tuesday, Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman also condemned the aggressors for attacking Iran’s pharmaceutical factories, warning that those who try to distract public attention from the realities of the war could be the invaders’ accomplices.

“Attacking pharmaceutical factories represents yet another dimension of their criminal sanctions – the very same sanctions that have long deprived Iranians of life-saving medicines. This is a blatant war crime & crime against humanity. Those who try to distract public attention from the realities of this illegal war by obsessing over the price of oil and groceries should be careful not to become complicit in these atrocities,” Baghaei stressed.

Israeli missiles struck a major pharmaceutical company in Tehran on Tuesday morning, completely destroying its raw material production units and its research and development unit.

The attack on the company, Tofigh Daru, came as Israel stepped up terrorist strikes on Iran and US President Donald Trump alternated between threats to target the country’s energy infrastructure and talk of trying to strike a deal with Iran.

Iran’s foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, said on Tuesday that Israel was “openly and unashamedly bombing pharmaceutical companies.”

The Israeli military said in a statement late in the day that it had struck the Tofigh Daru factory, claiming the facility was secretly supplying a potentially deadly drug to the Organization of Defensive Innovation and Research of Iran.

Dr. Mahdi Pirsalehi, deputy minister of health and president of the Food and Drug Administration, described the strike as “an attempt to disrupt the country’s health care system.”

Pirsalehi said the company is “one of the most important producers of raw materials for hospital medications and drugs used in operating rooms,” and that raw materials for some cancer medications are also produced there.

Tofigh Daru is owned by Iran’s largest pension fund. “The company in question belongs to the nation’s retirees,” Pirsalehi said, “and this action has targeted the health and lives of people.”

For years, US sanctions on Iran have made it nearly impossible for foreign pharmaceutical companies to continue working in the country, forcing the majority of medicine production to be done domestically.

Under international humanitarian law, commanders must distinguish between military and civilian targets.

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