Top Iran official says US focus on economic warfare shows it has failed militarily


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The Iranian regime has dismissed President Trump’s threats to crush the country economically, saying that years of U.S. sanctions have failed. On Friday, Iran’s parliamentary speaker Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf, the country’s main ?negotiator with the U.S., said Trump’s threat of an “economic D-Day” showed Washington was unable to prevail militarily. “The Americans and the Israelis have realised that they cannot handle Iran…in the field of a hard military war, so they have entered into a cognitive war and an economic war,” he said during a visit to neighboring Iraq. Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi had also condemned Trump’s announced pivot…

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