Iran slams US over 'winning' claims, says 'same script' from Vietnam war

Iran’s Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi connected Friday criticised the United States’ connection regarding the ongoing determination conflict, comparing Washington’s messaging to the discredited briefings of the Vietnam War era.In a station connected X, Araghchi said, “Americans haven’t forgotten how, adjacent arsenic hundreds of US soldiers were dying successful Vietnam, and the result was already clear, General William Westmoreland was flown location to reassure everyone that the warfare was going good — that the US was ‘winning.’The media haven’t forgotten either; those briefings afloat of phantasy from the frontlines became infamous arsenic the ‘Five O’Clock Follies.’”Araghchi argued that existent US messaging reflects the aforesaid detachment from reality: “Fast guardant to today: aforesaid script, antithetic stage; Hegseth steps up, and the connection is inactive detached from reality.”

The overseas curate besides claimed discrepancies betwixt authoritative statements and caller events connected the ground. He pointed to the reported downing of an F-35 and strategical maneuvers by the USS Gerald Ford and USS Abraham Lincoln, suggesting that the struggle is acold from the one-sided triumph portrayed by Washington. He summarised:“US authorities says 1 thing, world says another. Right arsenic US authorities assertion Iran’s aerial defences are gone, an F-35 gets hit. As they state Iran’s navy finished, USS Gerald Ford turns back, and USS Abraham Lincoln drifts farther away. Different decade, aforesaid ‘we’re winning.’”