Iranian national security chief Mohsen Rezaei has warned the US that Persians have stopped Western civilisations in the past.
“When, after suffering defeat and humiliation at the hands of Iran, they go to Athens to construct a narrative of a civilisational war, they would do well to read another important chapter of history as well: the one in which the Roman emperor knelt before Shapur I of the Sasanian Empire,” he writes.
“Those who invoke history must also be prepared to see it repeat itself!” he adds, referring to remarks by US Secretary of State Marco Rubio a day prior.
