Iran’s security council official Mohsen Rezaei on Saturday hit back at US President Donald Trump’s claim that Tehran was approaching surrender, saying America would only “win in its imagination”.
US and Israel had launched strikes against Iran in February earlier this year, following which Tehran retaliated by attacking American bases and interests in countries in West Asia. This comes even as the US is attempting to increase economic pressure on Iran and cut off its financial sources, even blockading the latter’s crude exports. Meanwhile, the diplomacy deadlock between the nations continued, with Trump publicly rejecting Tehran’s proposal. “We don’t know who the hell to deal with, to be honest with you.
Replying to Trump’s claim that Tehran was “ready to fold up”, the secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council said he was the “worst president in American history. In a post on his official X handle, Rezaei said, “After one failure after another, the worst president in American history just keeps talking—and talking—and now his words have even outrun his own fantasies. Texas, Trump said Iran was “ready to fold up”, adding that he believes US will win the war “right after the election”, CBS News reported While speaking in Denton. He claimed America can win “maybe before the election” too. “I’m ensuring that Iran will be very quickly ended,” the US President said at the Peterbilt Motors facility. He added that thereafter, energy prices would be “rapidly, rapidly coming” down. Trump claimed that the US was “trying to be nice” to the current Iranian leader. Nobody wants to be president,” Trump said.
Iran further effectively closed the Strait of Hormuz, one of the key routes for energy supply before the conflict.
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