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IRAN’S DEFIANT CHALLENGE TO THE U.S.A.
TRUMP’S DECEITFUL ‘PEACE’ OFFER REJECTED
Iranian commander taunts US troops to ‘come closer’ as Trump claims war is won
By Newsroom March 25, 2026 01:18 AM GMT+03:00
Admiral Ali Akbar Ahmadian, the supreme leader’s representative on Iran’s Defence Council, issued a provocative challenge to American forces on Tuesday, declaring that Iran has spent more than two decades preparing for an asymmetric war against the United States and urging U.S. soldiers to advance toward Iranian territory.
“For years, we’ve been awaiting the Americans’ entry into the designated points, and for over two decades, we’ve been training with the asymmetric warfare strategy for this very moment,” Ahmadian wrote on X. “Now, we have just one message for the American soldiers: Come closer.”
The taunt landed just hours after President Donald Trump told reporters in the Oval Office that the war against Iran had effectively been won and that Tehran was negotiating in earnest. “We’re in negotiations right now,” Trump said, adding that Iranian officials were receptive to a deal. He also repeated his claim that the U.S. has already won the war.
The duelling messages underscore the deep disconnect between Washington and Tehran nearly four weeks into the conflict that began with joint U.S.-Israeli strikes on February 28, a campaign that killed former Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on its first day and has since expanded into a sprawling regional confrontation.
A veteran commander’s defiant message
Ahmadian is no stranger to confrontation with the United States. Born in 1961, he was training to become a veterinarian before joining the 1979 revolution and fighting in the Iran-Iraq War. He rose through the ranks of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps Navy, where he championed asymmetric tactics as a way to counter superior forces, including the U.S. Navy stationed in the Persian Gulf.
Ahmadian was appointed by the supreme leader to the Defence Council in August 2025, a body established to centralize Iran’s defence decision-making following the Iran-Israel war earlier that year.
His post on X came as the Pentagon announced the deployment of a 3,000-person brigade combat team from the U.S. Army’s 82nd Airborne Division, a rapid-response force capable of deploying within hours.
Thousands of Marines are already en route to the Middle East, and Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth approved a request from U.S. Central Command for an amphibious ready group and a Marine expeditionary unit involving warships and approximately 5,000 Marines and sailors.