November 5, 2026
Juan Cole
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Maj. Gen. Mohsen Rezaei, the secretary of the Supreme National Security Council of Iran, posted on X on Wednesday, “The Iranian nation handed Trump a strategic defeat on the battlefield and in Hormuz, and a political defeat in Washington. Meanwhile, Americans got stuck with the bill for his war. Anyone who takes on Iran will pay the price, from the battlefield to their own doorstep.”
Juan Cole
Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Maj. Gen. Mohsen Rezaei, the secretary of the Supreme National Security Council of Iran, posted on X on Wednesday, “The Iranian nation handed Trump a strategic defeat on the battlefield and in Hormuz, and a political defeat in Washington. Meanwhile, Americans got stuck with the bill for his war. Anyone who takes on Iran will pay the price, from the battlefield to their own doorstep.”
