National Security and Foreign Policy Committee Chairman Ebrahim Azizi said Trump's threats are a natural result of his lack of real leverage, according to Iranian state-linked sources. Azizi claimed Trump has achieved no significant gains in the conflict and that any miscalculated step will draw a more painful response than before.
Iranian National Security and Foreign Policy Committee Chairman Ebrahim Azizi on Tuesday dismissed U.S. President Donald Trump's threats against Tehran as 'illusions,' arguing that Washington lacks real leverage over the Islamic Republic.
'Trump's threats are a natural thing because he lacks real levers of power,' Azizi said in a statement carried by Iranian state-linked outlets. 'Trump has achieved no significant gains — not in the Ramadan War, nor in recent days. His record in this confrontation is almost devoid of achievements.'
Azizi asserted that any miscalculated step by Washington would be met with a response 'more painful than before,' echoing a day of escalating rhetoric from Iranian officials. The remarks follow a pattern of Tehran pushing back against Trump's 48-hour deadline for a nuclear deal and threats of renewed strikes. As The Zioneer reported earlier, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian on Monday called Trump's threats a 'sign of desperation,' while a senior military advisor to the Supreme Leader, Mohsen Rezaei, threatened that 'Iranian missiles will sink him deeper.'
The statement adds to the same thread of Iranian defiance but provides no new operational information. No specific military action was announced, and the claim of U.S. ineffectiveness remains an assertion by an Iranian political figure with no independent corroboration.
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