Rouhani pretends Iran defeated the US, without actually doing anything

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani needs to find a feather to put in his cap after failures to confront the coronavirus have left millions of Iranians vulnerable. His response: We’ve done everything right and we have responded to the US over the killing of Qasem Soleimani and we defeated the US over oil sanctions. There is one problem. Rouhani hasn’t accomplished any of the things he claims to have done over the last year. His message to the Iranian public on Wednesday was bragging in the face of a growing crisis. While his own members of parliament are chaffing under the failure of the government to impose lockdowns to...