CNN (“In his first comments since truce, Iran’s supreme leader says country ‘crushed’ Israel“):
In his first comments since the Iran-Israel conflict ended in a ceasefire, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei congratulated “the great nation of Iran” for its “victory over the fake Zionist regime.”
“Despite all that noise, and with all those claims, the Zionist regime almost collapsed and was crushed under the blows of the Islamic Republic,” he was cited as saying by state-run IRNA news agency.
He said the United States entered the conflict with Israel “because they felt that if they did not enter, the Zionist regime would be destroyed.”
“However, the Americans did not gain anything in this war.”
A variant of the “declare victory and go home” approach, I guess. If this means the war is over, I suppose I’ll take it.
The degree to which both the US and Iranian leadership are making maximalist claims at odds with reality would be amusing if the stakes were lower.
Click this link for the original source of this article.
Author: James Joyner
This content is courtesy of, and owned and copyrighted by, https://www.outsidethebeltway.com and its author. This content is made available by use of the public RSS feed offered by the host site and is used for educational purposes only. If you are the author or represent the host site and would like this content removed now and in the future, please contact USSANews.com using the email address in the Contact page found in the website menu.
