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It is often said that the first casualty of war is truth. On Wednesday, in a post on Truth Social, US President Donald Trump suggested the war with Iran may soon be over, while also threatening to send Tehran “back to the stone age.”
That same day, in a letter addressed to the American people, his Iranian counterpart, Masoud Pezeshkian, said Iran is not, and never has been, a threat to the US — but then threatened to strike back “beyond Iran’s borders.”
Needless to say, President Pezeshkian has lost credibility since his March 7 statement, in which he apologized for attacking Iran’s Gulf neighbors, only for the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to double down on those attacks.
These included drone and missile strikes on Saudi Arabia, which had signed — in good faith — the Beijing Declaration with Iran in 2023 and, from the outset, refused to allow its airspace or territory to be used for attacks on Iran.
