Iran brings them to their knees - US in frenzy: "Mojtaba is deformed, he is afraid - They want to surrender"

The United States is in a state of frenzy, particularly President Donald Trump and his staff, who are "dreaming" of an Iranian defeat and surrender. Following the ultimatum from the new Iranian leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, regarding the closure of Hormuz, the US has launched a propaganda campaign that would make Goebbels envious. With slogans like "Mojtaba Khamenei is deformed and afraid," "we are hitting more than 1,000 targets a day," and "we will hit them very hard," the US has staged a theater of the absurd to cover up its resounding failure:

1. Even the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln is counting its wounds from the Iranian strike.

2. Oil has exceeded $100.

3. Trump "kneeled" before Russian President Vladimir Putin and relaxed sanctions on Russian oil.

4. Twenty-four hours after Trump informed G7 leaders that Iran wants to surrender, the country's new leader issued an ultimatum.

5. The US Navy refuses to escort tankers wishing to cross the Strait of Hormuz, which is full of mines and has turned into a war zone.

US propaganda regarding the new Iranian leader

American Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth persisted with conspiracy theories regarding the health of Mojtaba Khamenei, emphasizing that he is injured and "likely deformed," adding that he is "on the run." "We know that the new, so-called 'not-so-supreme' leader is injured and likely deformed. He issued a statement yesterday, a weak statement to be precise, but there was no voice and no video," Hegseth stated during a press briefing. "He is frightened, he is injured, he is on the run, and he lacks legitimacy. It is a mess for them. Who is in control? Iran might not even know," he added.

"We have hit more than 15,000 targets"

Simultaneously, Hegseth claimed that US and Israeli armed forces have struck more than 15,000 targets within Iran since the start of the war. "That means over 1,000 targets per day. No other combination of countries in the world can do this," Hegseth declared. "Never before has a modern, capable military, like the one Iran previously had, been destroyed so quickly, rendered so combat-ineffective, and hit so severely. We said it wouldn't be a fair fight, and indeed it wasn't."

Hegseth stated at a Pentagon press briefing that the US is "decimating the military of the radical Iranian regime in a way the world has never seen before." "Iran no longer possesses anti-aircraft defense. Iran has no air force. Iran has no navy. Their missiles, their missile launchers, and their drones are being destroyed or shot down. Their missile volume has decreased by 90%," he added.

Trump's announcement of a major strike on Iran

Shortly before, Donald Trump told Fox News that the US plans to hit Iran "very hard" next week. Asked about assistance for oil tankers transiting the strategic maritime Strait of Hormuz, the US president said: "We would do it if we had to. But, you know, we hope things will go very well. We'll see what happens." Trump's... "best moment," however, was during the teleconference with G7 leaders, where he informed them that "Iran wants to surrender."

However, 24 hours later, the new supreme leader of Iran issued his first public statement, vowing to continue the fight. It is obvious that the American president's assessment clashes with a more complex reality on the ground. The Iranian regime has shown no signs of imminent surrender or collapse—and on the 14th day of the war, it is attempting to gain greater bargaining power by strangling the Strait of Hormuz.

"I got rid of a cancer"

According to information from Axios, Trump boasted about the results of Operation Epic Fury during the same teleconference, telling allies: "I got rid of a cancer that threatened us all." While claiming that Iran was ready to surrender, he also hypothesized that there were no longer officials in Tehran with the authority to make that decision. "No one knows who the leader is, so there is no one who can announce the surrender," Trump reportedly said, according to two officials briefed on the call. Trump has satirized Iran's new supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei, labeling him "weak," previously telling Axios that the son of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei would be "unacceptable" to the US.

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