Iran10 February, 20262 min read
Mohsen Rezaei Says Iran Shapes Reality, Dismisses Donald Trump’s Threatening Rhetoric
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Iran shapes reality through its people, armed forces and missiles, not Trump’s rhetoric. Trump’s threats fail; his claims of victory are fantasies, per Iranian security official.
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Rezaei Rejects Trump
Mohsen Rezaei, Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, dismissed US President Donald Trump’s threatening rhetoric against Iran, saying “reality is shaped by Iran—by its people, its soldiers, and its missiles.” Rezaei wrote on his X account that “After one failure after another, the worst president in American history just keeps talking—and talking—and now his words have even outrun his own fantasies,” framing Trump’s statements as disconnected from events on the ground.
Amin al-Majlis al-Aala lil-Amn al-Qawmi also circulated the same argument that the “worst president in the history of America still speaks non-stop after successive defeats,” and that his words had exceeded “even his own fantasies.” Rezaei’s message tied Iran’s posture to its people, its soldiers, and its missiles, while the posts contrasted Trump’s rhetoric with what the accounts described as realities on the ground.
US Carrier Buildup
US officials told The Wall Street Journal that the Pentagon is preparing to deploy a third aircraft carrier strike group and additional Marine Corps ships to the Middle East as tensions with Iran rise.
The planned deployment could add an estimated 9,000 to 10,000 US troops, and the ships, fighter jets, Marines and sailors were expected to arrive by the end of November.
The USS Theodore Roosevelt left San Diego on Sunday for a scheduled deployment, while the USS Makin Island Amphibious Ready Group departed Monday carrying Marines from the 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit.
The USS George H.W. Bush and USS George Washington are already in the region, and it described the buildup as coming after fighting between the US and Iran that began Feb. 28 ended with a fragile ceasefire.
Ceasefire, Strikes, Hormuz
The deployments followed Trump’s rejection of Iran’s latest seven-day ceasefire proposal, and it described Trump telling Time magazine that the US could resume strikes on Iran after the midterms if no agreement is reached. Iran’s proposal included reopening the Strait of Hormuz, through which about one-fifth of the world’s oil supplies normally pass, and resuming negotiations over Tehran’s nuclear program in exchange for the lifting of a US blockade of Iranian ports.
“They’ll either sign a very fair deal, or they won’t exist any longer.”
PressTV framed Rezaei’s remarks as coming as Trump repeatedly claimed the United States had already won, or was on the verge of winning, the war on Iran, and it said the claims had been made at least 100 times. PressTV also quoted Trump’s warning that “They’ll either sign a very fair deal, or they won’t exist any longer,” and it said the remarks echoed an even more severe threat Trump made at the United Nations General Assembly when he said he faced a choice between reaching a deal with Iran and “annihilate” the country.