'You can win every day in your own imagination': Iran official taunts Trump as he hits back
TEHRAN, IRAN: A fresh war of words has erupted between Washington and Tehran after a senior Iranian security official, on Friday, October 2, directly challenged President Donald Trump’s claims about the conflict.
Mohsen Rezaei, secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, accused the US president of repeatedly declaring victory while dismissing those assertions as detached from reality.
Hours later, Trump used a campaign rally in Alabama to describe the damage inflicted on Iran and question who remains available for Washington to negotiate with.
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. You can win every day in your own imagination. But reality is shaped by Iran—by its people, its soldiers,and its missiles.
— محسن رضایی (@ir_rezaee) October 2, 2026
Iran security chief calls Trump history's worst president
Mohsen Rezaei lashed out against President Trump in a post on X on Friday.
His message came after Trump had repeatedly suggested that Tehran was nearing a point where it would have to give in.
Rezaei rejected that characterization and instead portrayed the American president as someone making claims that exist primarily in his own version of events.
Rezaei described Trump as the “worst president in American history” and accused him of continuing to talk despite what the Iranian official described as repeated failures.
"After one failure after another, the worst president in American history just keeps talking and now his words have even outrun his own fantasies," Rezaei said.
He then argued that statements made from Washington could not determine what happens inside Iran, pointing instead to the country’s population and armed forces.
The exchange comes amid continuing tension between the two governments, with diplomatic efforts struggling to produce a settlement.
US President Donald Trump said Iran would never obtain nuclear weapons and that the war would end “very soon,” probably right after November’s midterm elections.
— Iran International English (@IranIntl_En) October 3, 2026
Speaking at a campaign rally in Mobile, Alabama, Trump said Iran had lost its navy, air force, radar and air… pic.twitter.com/TdqVItyj3p
Trump says no one left in Tehran to negotiate
Trump, in turn, returned to the Iran conflict during his Friday night appearance in Mobile, Alabama, where he was campaigning ahead of the November midterm elections.
The president told the crowd that Iran would not be allowed to acquire a nuclear weapon and said he expected the war to conclude soon.
He suggested the conflict could be over around the time of the midterm elections.
Trump also claimed that Iran had suffered major losses to its military infrastructure, specifically pointing to its navy, air force, radar and air-defense systems.
He further argued that the country's economy had been badly damaged.
Oil prices were another part of Trump's message. He said energy costs would fall sharply once the fighting ended.
The president then turned his attention to Iran's leadership, describing a situation in which, according to his account, several successive groups of Iranian leaders had been eliminated during the conflict.
Trump said this had created an unusual problem for Washington: identifying whom to negotiate with.
He told the Alabama crowd that he did not know who he could deal with in Tehran and joked about the apparent absence of anyone willing to take responsibility for leading the country.
