TEHERÁN, 14 de noviembre de 2026 (EFE).— Irán denunció hoy sábado que Estados Unidos amenaza decaradamente con matar de hambre al pueblo iraní mediante el bloqueo económico impuesto al país.
La denuncia llegó después de que el secretario de Estado de EE.UU., Marco Rubio, afirmara que las sanciones ya surten efecto y advirtiera que los iraníes “al final tienen que comer”.
Irán acusa a EE.UU. de crímenes de guerra
“El secretario de Estado de Estados Unidos ha amenazado abierta y descaradamente con matar de hambre a los iraníes mediante un bloqueo. Esta es una nueva admisión de que Washington está cometiendo crímenes de guerra”, escribió el portavoz del Ministerio de Exteriores de Irán, Esmail Bagaei, en la red social X.
“They have to eat eventually,” the U.S. Secretary of State has declared – openly and insolently threatening to starve Iranians through a blockade. This is yet another admission that Washington is pursuing war crimes, compounding the atrocities it has already committed in its wars of aggression and economic terrorism against Iran. After decades of failed coercion, threats, sanctions, terrorism, and aggression, the United States continues to repeat the same mistakes, merely repackaging them under new names. This is a textbook example of what historian Barbara Tuchman described as a March of Folly: a government persisting in a disastrous course of action, refusing to learn from its failures, and becoming even more entrenched in its mistakes with every successive defeat.
— Esmaeil Baqaei (@IRIMFA_SPOX) November 14, 2026
Qué dijo Rubio sobre Irán
El martes 10 de noviembre, tras la reunión en París de ministros de Exteriores del G7 (EE.UU., Japón, Alemania, Reino Unido, Francia, Italia y Canadá), Rubio aseguró que las sanciones y el bloqueo naval ya afectan gravemente a la economía iraní, y consideró que, de momento, no son necesarios nuevos ataques militares.
“El sufrimiento que están experimentando es que, al final, tienen que comer. Al final, tienen que poder pagar a sus propios combatientes y a sus fuerzas de seguridad”, expresó Rubio.
“Narrativa engañosa”
Para el vocero iraní, estas declaraciones demuestran que “tras décadas de presiones, amenazas, sanciones, terrorismo y agresiones fallidas, Estados Unidos sigue repitiendo los mismos errores, simplemente presentándolos bajo nuevos nombres”.
“Los funcionarios estadounidenses han ideado ahora una nueva narrativa engañosa para evadir la responsabilidad por las catastróficas consecuencias humanas, económicas y geopolíticas de su agresión ilegal contra Irán: ‘¡América no inició la guerra con Irán; los iraníes la iniciaron con la Revolución de 1979!’”, escribió hoy Esmail Bagaei en otra publicación en X.
American officials have now come up with a new deceptive narrative to evade responsibility for the catastrophic human, economic, and geopolitical consequences of their unlawful aggression against Iran: “America did not start the war with Iran; the Iranians started it with the 1979 Revolution!” This fabrication is so blatant that any reasonable person would recognize it as false with no hesitation. The Iranian Revolution of 1979 was about reclaiming the country’s sovereignty, freedom, and human dignity. And, of course, the bitter memory of American interference, particularly the 1953 CIA-backed coup was still fresh in the minds of Iranians then, just as it is today. Military aggression has a clear definition. No matter how desperately American officials try to evade the issue, they cannot erase from the minds of the American people or the world the fact that it was the United States that twice, in less than nine months, launched unprovoked aggression against Iran in the midst of diplomatic negotiations. They assassinated Iran’s Supreme Leader and senior Iranian officials, killed and wounded our women and children, and destroyed our vital infrastructure. Now that the U.S. administration has run into a military and political dead end, it is trying both to deny responsibility for starting the war and to conceal its failure to achieve its objectives behind a narrative of victory. This is despite the fact that, at the highest levels, the American political establishment has acknowledged that the war against Iran was the principal cause of its electoral defeat. But if the American officials are referring to the historical roots of the conflict when they speak of who started the hostilities, then they would do well to turn the pages of history further back: to the August 1953 CIA-backed coup; to Washington’s political, intelligence, military, and financial support for Saddam’s regime in its eight-year long aggression against Iran; to the Reagan administration’s complicity with Iraq in its use of chemical weapons against Iranianians; to its obstruction of any serious effort by the UN Security Council to hold Saddam’s regime accountable; to the direct involvement of the U.S. Navy in Saddam’s military aggression against Iran in April 1988; to the downing of an Iranian civilian airliner over the Persian Gulf in July 1988, killing all 290 people on board; to sweeping economic sanctions designed to inflict harm on Iranian people; to the unilateral withdrawal from the JCPOA, and the reinstatement of the maximum pressure campaign; to the assassination of Qassem Soleimani, a national hero to Iranians and a prominent figure across the region; and to many other interventions, each of which has helped shape the history of Washington’s hostility toward Iran. The United States cannot escape responsibility for its decision to launch unlawful war of choice against Iran on 28 February 2026 by turning back the clock or redefining the meaning of war. The United States has been both the instigator of historical hostility toward the Iranian Nation and the initiator of military aggression against Iran.
— Esmaeil Baqaei (@IRIMFA_SPOX) November 14, 2026
La guerra y las sanciones
Después de que EE.UU. e Israel iniciaran el 28 de febrero de 2026 la guerra contra Irán, el gobierno de Donald Trump implementó una serie de medidas para presionar a la República Islámica, como las siguientes:
- El bloqueo naval, que empezó en abril y se reanudó en julio.
- La intensificación de las sanciones, incluidas las impuestas a las aerolíneas iraníes, en el marco de la operación Paria Económico, lanzada en agosto.
- La operación Puerta de Hierro, anunciada en noviembre para limitar el transporte de mercancías sancionadas por rutas terrestres y por el mar Caspio.
El presidente de Irán, Masud Pezeshkian, alertó en octubre pasado que muchos iraníes tienen dificultades incluso para conseguir “el pan de cada día” debido a la guerra y a la incertidumbre que atraviesa el país.
Todo esto sucede mientras las negociaciones indirectas entre Irán y EE.UU., con mediación de Catar y Pakistán, siguen estancadas y Teherán contesta a la presión estadounidense con ataques contra buques y restricciones al tránsito marítimo en el estrecho de Ormuz, vía clave para el comercio mundial de petróleo.