According to CoinMeta, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahagae stated on social media: "The U.S. Secretary of State blatantly and arrogantly threatens to starve the Iranian people through blockades, claiming, 'They will eventually have to eat something.'" This once again demonstrates that Washington is committing war crimes, and the atrocities it has committed in its aggressive war against Iran and through economic terrorism have thus further intensified. For decades, coercion, threats, sanctions, terrorism, and acts of aggression have been ineffective, yet the United States continues to repeat these same mistakes, merely giving them new names. This is a typical example of what historian Barbara Tuchman described as the "March of Folly": a government that insists on moving down a disastrous path, refuses to learn from its failures, and after each successive setback, only becomes more entrenched in its own errors.