Senior Iranian officials hit back at Rubio after Athens speech

Senior Iranian officials hit back at Rubio after Athens speech Senior Iranian officials have criticised the comments made by US Secretary of State Marco Rubio about Iranian history during a speech in Athens on Wednesday in which he drew parallels between ancient Greco-Persian conflicts and modern tensions between Tehran and Washington. Ebrahim Azizi, the head of the Iranian parliament’s national security commission, wrote in a post on X on Saturday that “a country whose history began with the massacre of indigenous peoples and has never ceased from colonialism and bloodshed accuses the…