👈Esmail Baghaei, Spokesperson of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs: This passage from the novel The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky correctly describes the situation that the governance system and U.S. foreign policy regarding the region and Iran have been thrown into due to their excessive reliance on lies:

Someone who tells lies to himself and believes his own lies will eventually reach a place where he no longer distinguishes truth—either within himself or in the world around him—from lies, and then he loses all self-respect and respect for others