Our president believes we’ve won the Iran war. He might be surprised to discover that Iran believes he’s lost. Yes, Iran thinks it has won.
Here’s what one of Iran’s mouthpieces, PressTV, said on Monday:
the American side now confronts an inescapable choice: either cease hostilities and accept Iran’s terms, or brace for the complete collapse of negotiations that would plunge the region into an even more catastrophic conflagration. But
PressTV cautions,
make no mistake: this is no negotiation between equals seeking middle ground. It is a confrontation between a victorious power that has shattered the will of a materially superior enemy and a defeated “superpower” desperately scrambling for an exit.
Yes, a major Iranian international news outlet says the Iran war is “a confrontation between a victorious power that has shattered the will of a materially superior enemy and a defeated ‘superpower.’”
Who is the so-called defeated superpower? The USA. And who is “the victorious power”? Iran.
Says an Iranian military high official Ali Naderi, Iran has accomplished something monumental. In Naderi’s words on Iranian television May 27th, Iran “has forced a global superpower to retreat.” What’s more, says Naderi, if America starts the war up again, it will be met by a response “unlike anything seen before.”
Iran has set out red lines. Four of them. Absolute lines the USA must not cross. Those red lines, says the Chairman of the Iranian Parliament’s National Security Foreign Policy Committee, are Iran’s
- “right to enrich uranium,
- “retaining the enriched materials,
- “exercising control over the strategic Strait of Hormuz, and
- “demanding removal of the United States’ illegal sanctions.”
For the USA, agreeing to these terms would be total surrender.
The Iranians warn that if the war resumes, it will “be extended beyond the region, and that devastating blows” will “be delivered from places the enemy cannot imagine.” In other words, we may see events like 9/11 in our very own backyards.
“We are men of war,” explains Iran’s military, the IRGC, “and you will see our power on the battlefield, not in hollow statements or social media pages.”
What’s more, adds the Iranian military’s Ali Naderi, Iran’s “missile and drone production lines are now operating at higher capacity than before.”
The Iranian public backs up these government statements. One viewer of Iran’s Press TV begs in a comments section to, “Please turn” all the western “economic centers,” “data centers, ports, airport[s], military bases, [and] manufacturing” facilities in the middle east “into a black dust.” The comment-writer calls, quote, “Trump & his… regime” genocidal terrorists. This commenter also predicts that Trump “will be blamed for the start of WWIII & [the] end of civilization!”
Another commenter calls for “One last war against those subhumans.” The subhumans he’s railing against are Westerners, like you and me. He adds that “permanent peace must be established.” Alas, in militant Islam the only real peace will come when Islamic government is in power from one end of the earth to the other.
Meanwhile, Iran’s new Supreme Leader Ayatollah Mojtaba Khamenei has called for all Iran’s neighbors to get rid of American military bases or to be attacked as accomplices of the enemy, accomplices of the Great Satan, America.
Most important, Iran is shooting for great power status like the magnificent stature it achieved 2,500 years ago in its heyday, when it was called the Persian Empire. That’s why Iranian Ministry spokesman Esmail Baghaei in a post on X three days ago “shared a historical image of a Sassanian (ancient Iranian) relief showing a Roman emperor submitting to a Persian king. He commented that Rome once saw itself as the undisputed center of the world, but ‘the Iranians shattered that illusion.’” That is the sort of humbling of a global superpower that Iran believes it is achieving today.
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