🇮🇷 Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi:

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Americans haven’t forgotten how, even as hundreds of U.S. soldiers were dying in Vietnam, and the outcome was already clear, General William Westmoreland was flown home to reassure everyone that the war was going well — that the U.S. was “winning.”

The media haven’t forgotten either; those briefings full of fantasy from the frontlines became infamous as the “Five O’Clock Follies.”

Fast forward to today: same script, different stage; Hegseth steps up, and the message is still detached from reality.

The U.S. government says one thing, reality says another. Right as U.S. authorities claim Iran’s air defences are gone, an F-35 gets hit. As they declare Iran’s navy finished, USS Gerald Ford turns back, and USS Abraham Lincoln drifts farther away.
Different decade, same “we’re winning.”