Iranian Foreign Ministry: We aided you, and you repaid us with terrorism

Last Tuesday, Ismail Baghaei, spokesperson for the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, posted a photo of the Iranian team that came to Kuwait and extinguished 28 oil wells, out of more than 700 wells sabotaged by Saddam Hussein before his defeat and withdrawal in 1991.

Baghaei wrote on X: “Honorable Iranians extinguished the fires that befell you, but you have now become part of the fires of the wicked against our people!” This prompted us to respond, given our interest in their history in the region since the 1980s. …