A top adviser to the commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said Tehran could deliberately prolong its war with the United States in an effort to outlast President Donald Trump, as Washington doubles down on a “WALL OF STEEL” naval blockade that U.S. and Israeli officials say is steadily worsening the Islamic Republic’s economic crisis.
“One way is to prolong this war until we get to the next term of the presidency and cause attrition, so that if anyone else wants to attack Iran, they will know there is a cost,” Brig. Gen. Mohammad Reza Naqdi told PBS in a rare interview published Tuesday.
Naqdi, a longtime senior...
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