Senior Iranian officials hit back at Marco 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 colonia