Iran Says No ‘Iran Conflict’ Exists, Calls It US-Israeli War of Aggression

The framing matters more than the denial itself: Tehran is rejecting the vocabulary of a neutral "conflict" in favor of an explicit aggressor-victim narrative, which narrows the room for mediated language that markets and diplomats typically rely on. For risk watchers, the signal is that official rhetoric is hardening rather than signaling de-escalation, and it comes from a Foreign Ministry spokesman rather than a security official. Whether this framing spreads into the wider official discourse, and whether counterparties respond in kind, is the open question.