Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei reacted to Trump’s latest comments in a post on X, where the U.S. president claimed that Washington was doing in Iran what he alleged it had done in Venezuela by seizing vast oil resources.
Baqaei likened Trump’s rhetoric to Joseph Heller’s novel Catch-22, in which the character Milo Minderbinder profits from war, saying the fictional logic now appears to have become a guiding principle of U.S. foreign policy.
According to the spokesman, the White House is attempting to claim the “spoils of war” despite failing to secure victory on the battlefield or achieve its declared objectives against Iran.
He said that before speaking of the spoils of war, one must first win the war, adding that Washington has instead become bogged down in conflict, failed to realize its stated goals, depleted its military resources, and suffered a loss of credibility.
Baqaei stressed that the so-called “spoils of Iran” exist only in the imagination of U.S. officials, arguing that they are publicly dividing imaginary gains before obtaining any tangible results.
The spokesman's remarks come amid continued tensions following the U.S.-Israeli war of aggression against the Islamic Republic of Iran, as the aggression failed to break the country's resolve or achieve the U.S,' strategic objectives.
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