In a message posted on his X account on Monday, Esmaeil Baqaei reflected on the consequences of pursuing influence through deception, discord, and manufactured crises, saying that forces unleashed for domination ultimately escape control and lead to the downfall of those who set them in motion.

“He who constructs his 'ladder' from 'chaos' convinces himself that he will rise to dominion over men. Yet he remains blind to the first and most inevitable truth: the maker of chaos is always its primary victim,” the Iranian spokesman said.

“The man who finds no value in honouring his obligations or preserving peace, but instead prospers through discord, deception, and perpetual strife, condemns himself to an exhausting and Sisyphean labour. Each day he must ignite a new fire merely to feed the old. He is not the master of crisis, but its prisoner; and no prisoner, however imposing his shadow, can ever be called truly powerful,” he added.

“The fomenters of strife are, in truth, not architects of power but captives of the very forces they unleash. For once awakened, such forces do not discriminate between ally and enemy, nor between the hand that summoned them and the lives they devour,” Baqaei said.

“Their final humiliation arrives the moment they realise that the weapon they forged to subjugate others has slipped its leash and now possesses a will of its own. In that bitter awakening lies the true poverty of their power—and the beginning of their inevitable downfall,” he concluded.